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Dodgers top Padres in 12 innings

SAN DIEGO - Eyes locked on the ground, Kenley Jansen trudged toward the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout. Behind him his teammates trickled off the field, a chance at victory thwarted, forced to play another extra-innings affair after Jansen's second blown save of the 2018 season. Jansen untucked his chin from his chest for a moment to scream at his glove.

It wasn't the glove, of course, feeding belt-high cutters at lukewarm speeds to the Padres in Tuesday's ninth inning. It was Jansen, a cornerstone of the Dodgers bullpen now acting

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