Kenley Jansen pitches poorly in loss

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    In baseball, feel-good stories tend to have short shelf lives. One of the more recent of those stories for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the one about the kid from Curacao who went from a minor league catcher who wasn't really considered much of a prospect to a major league reliever with blistering velocity in less than a year, well, that story ended fairly abruptly Saturday.

    It isn't that Dodgers officials were concerned after Kenley Jansen's first outing of the season, a fairly disastrous inning in the midst of a 10-0 loss to the San Francisco Giants before 40,809 at Dodger Stadium. It isn't that anyone was all that alarmed that Jansen gave up twice as many runs in one inning as he gave up in 25 big league appearances after his midseason call-up last year.

    "Just looking at the film, there were a couple of pitches that could have [been called] either way and maybe turned that inning around," Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt said.

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/columns/story?id=6285078
     

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