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    Can the Dodgers win a World Series with Kenley Jansen continuing to struggle as their closer?

    by Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - For the first time in his major-league career, a decade-long period of stable excellence, Kenley Jansen was booed at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday. The fans, after years and years of cascading the closer with cheers, flipped their tone when they watched Jansen surrender a go-ahead home run to Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Rowdy Tellez. It was the latest installment in an unsettling season for the former All-Star. The dissent had been building up. It boiled over Wednesday.

    "I get it. Boo me," Jansen said before the Los Angeles Dodgers' 3-2 walk-off win over the Blue

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