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Kenley Jansen and the Dodgers will always be synonomoyus — that doesn’t mean that the former Los Angeles closer doesn’t want to beat his former team any chance he can.
Jansen closed out games one and two of the Angels three-game sweep over the Dodgers, doing so in emphatic fashion with some trademark dominance on the mound.
“It's definitely emotional every time I step on that mound,” Jansen said. “A majority of my career has been there, so I enjoy being on that mound again. But it's just another competition. So I try to treat it the same like any team I'm facing, so just go out there and compete and try to help the team win ballgames.”
Jansen also had a notable velocity increase during the outing.
“It was probably the adrenaline of being home and facing his old team,” manager Ron Washington said. “But he has that in him. I think he threw 95 one time in Tampa. So I think every now and then, he has it in him, and he knows when to go get it. That's his experience.”
The Angels’ three-game sweep moved them to within 4.5 games of a wild card spot.
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“I think it's great, man, it shows that we can compete,” Jansen said. “The last two series actually have been very positive, even though we lost the series to the Padres. But you’ve seen the bats come alive. We just have to be better in the bullpen.”
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