The power of emotion.(baseball team New York Mets; includes related article)

The Shea Stadium crowd taunted the first-place Braves with the tomahawk chop last Saturday night and chanted, "Let's Go Marlins!" to urge on the second-place Phillies' opponent. To the fans, it was a pennant race. To the Mets, it was something more.

"It's tough to go out and beat a team that has so much to play for" the Braves' Chipper Jones says. "They're going out and trying to win ballgames for this city. It's almost like the division title is secondary in their minds."

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