MLB Playoffs: Coco Crisp Brings Raucous Coliseum Crowd to Life, Forces Game 5

At some point, you have to start wondering if this is all really scripted. Or do the A's have some "magic" recipe?

"I don't really know how to describe the 'magic' word," says Game 4 hero Coco Crisp. "When you go out there and give it your all, more times than not, good results will happen."

"At some point it's gotta just be good baseball," Seth Smith added. "There's no magic recipe or anything like that. We go out there and we play hard, carefree and get the job done."

No, this Oakland team doesn't credit any special superstitions. There are no foot-long beards being grown or rally monkeys jumping up and down on the scoreboard (although...

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