The Dodgers game plan, Verdugo later explained, was to wait out the veteran pitcher. Chacin, Verdugo said, wants to induce swings on pitches out of the strike zone. He took one strike on the outside corner before Chacin tried getting him to hack at three pitches further off the plate. Verdugo didn’t swing at any, bringing the count to 3 and 1. The next pitch, a 90-mph fastball, caught the outer half of the plate, and Verdugo cracked a groundball up the middle.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 15, 2019 01:41 UTC