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It's Blue Seven for Dodgers after downing Astros, Verlander, 3-1

LOS ANGELES_The closer lumbered down the stairs away from the diamond, three outs down, three more to go. Dodger Stadium trembled in his wake, aware of the responsibility hung across his broad shoulders. As Kenley Jansen entered the dugout midway through Tuesday's eighth inning, he met the most concerned spectator inside a ballpark containing 54,128 fans in the sixth game of the World Series.

"You got this?" manager Dave Roberts asked.

Jansen stared at his manager. He had blown one save and lost one game to these Astros. He understood that the Dodgers resided on the brink of elimination because of it. His gaze was firm. His answer was brief, biting and

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