ARLINGTON — Kenley Jansen unfolds like a giant origami crane when he throws a baseball. Slowly, first from an erect position with his 6'5" frame, his limbs go this way and that in the deliberate, methodical manner of the hardware inside a grandfather clock. The danger of it is when any piece of this mechanical unfolding goes askew, which is why two days before the National League Championship Series began Jansen no longer was the Los Angeles Dodgers' closer and was in need of some long-distance help.
On Oct. 10, Jansen threw an inning in a simulated game here at Globe Life Field with a man standing behind a screen at third base holding a cell phone camera pointed at him.