Dave Dombrowski has fierce desire to win title for Phillies owner

PHOENIX – Dave Dombrowski, sitting on the Philadelphia Phillies bench wearing a golf shirt, sports jacket, slacks and not a hair out of place, gazes across the field at the out-of-town scoreboard.

Dombrowski, 70, is the only baseball executive to lead four different teams to the World Series with 10 playoff berths, nine division titles, five pennants and two World Series championships.

His career will culminate one day in Cooperstown with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, but before he’s done -with another contract extension awaiting him this winter – there’s this fierce desire raging inside of him.

Dombrowski doesn’t want to leave the game without winning it all, at least one more time, for the city of Philadelphia.

He’s still haunted by the memories of 2013 when the Detroit Tigers were the best team in baseball, on their way to the World Series, only for David Ortiz’s stunning grand slam at Fenway Park that flipped the American League Championship Series upside down.

The Tigers fell to the Boston Red Sox in six games, were swept out of the playoffs the following season and Dombrowski was fired the next. He turned a team that lost 119 games in 2003…

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