title: What is the equivalent to Laravel Eloquent's belongsTo in raw MySQL
body: <p>Probably a dumb question. But say I have 2 tables, <code>teams</code> and <code>images</code>. The <code>teams</code> table has a field <code>image_id</code>. In my Eloquent model for <code>Team</code>, I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function image()
  {
      return $this-&gt;belongsTo('App\Image');
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I want to get a team's image, I invoke <code>$team-&gt;image</code>. What I want to do is to make this request in raw MySQL. So far I have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT teams.*, images.*  
  FROM `teams` 
      LEFT JOIN images ON teams.image_id = images.id 
  WHERE teams.id = 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this the correct approach? Could it be improved?</p>