Houston ? Bobby Jenks was as relaxed as a rookie could be, playing cards in the clubhouse Monday, his thoughts far removed from his first blown save in the World Series.

Maybe it was because as soon as Scott Podsednik bailed out Jenks and the White Sox with a bottom-of-the-ninth homer in Game 2 Sunday night, manager Ozzie Guillen made sure he found his hefty closer and told him to get over it.

And do it in a hurry.

“He said, ‘Stuff like that happens. Be sure you’re ready for the next day,”‘ Jenks said after a workout at Minute Maid Park.

“As soon as the ball went out of the park, obviously the team went out, and I was looking around for Bobby,” Guillen said. “You don’t have to look twice, because you can see him right away.”

And when Guillen hit the White Sox clubhouse Monday, he spotted starter Mark Buehrle giving the 6-foot-3, 270-pound Jenks a hug.

“That’s us,” Guillen said. “That’s the way we are. ‘Don’t worry about it, just get it tomorrow.’ I think the closer’s job is the toughest job in baseball. You get paid to close, and then when you don’t, people are all over your case.”

Jenks says he’s fully aware of the closer’s mandatory approach to ending ballgames: don’t dwell on the previous game, whether it was good or bad.

Especially with a championship perhaps resting on how he pitches and the crowd noise deafening on each pitch he delivers. Don’t forget, too, that just under four months ago, Jenks was making his major-league debut after being promoted from Double-A.