Atlanta Braves' Kenley Jansen gets save in first appearance back at Dodger Stadium, with Freddie Freeman the last out

LOS ANGELES — Kenley Jansen entered Tuesday's ninth inning to close out a game from Dodger Stadium as a member of the Atlanta Braves. His last out was Freddie Freeman, now a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Jansen couldn't help but laugh at the thought of it.

«That's weird as hell,» Jansen said after the Braves' 3-1 victory, which came after his 186th career regular-season save from Dodger Stadium. «I've faced that guy so many times in all those Braves series. Now it's vice versa. Yeah, it's crazy, man. It's crazy how the game is now. But it's fun.»

Jansen had his sights set on returning to the Dodgers this offseason, just like Freeman expected to return to the Braves, but everything changed shortly after the lockout was lifted around the middle of March.

Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos reportedly turned down an ultimatum from Freeman's representation and instead traded for Matt Olson, prompting the Dodgers to sign Freeman to a six-year, $162 million contract on March 16. The deal put the Dodgers on track to exceed the fourth tier of the luxury tax threshold, prompting the need to shed salary in order to fit Jansen into the budget. But the Braves gave Jansen a one-year, $16 million offer and needed a quick answer, prompting Jansen to spurn the Dodgers to join the team he grew up rooting for in Curacao on March 18.

A segment of a sold-out Dodger Stadium crowd initially greeted Jansen with boos as he entered from the right-field bullpen on Tuesday, but most of those who remained in attendance soon stood and clapped. The reaction was basically mixed, somewhat subdued, with Jansen's trademark entrance song, «California Love,» no longer blaring from the speakers.

«It's all about business now,» Jansen said. «I'm just