GLENDALE, Ariz. -- What were the odds that at this point in camp, Kenley Jansen, coming off a heart procedure, would have played in more spring games than Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler combined?

There’s uncertainty with the starting pair, but the closer is taking no vacation this camp. He made his Cactus League debut on Sunday with a scoreless inning and a strikeout in the Dodgers’ 6-3 comeback win over the Rangers. The radar gun clocked Jansen's cutter at 89-92 mph, but he’s trying not to care.

“It will come. I know it’s in there,” Jansen said. “I don’t want to watch the radar no more. I learned my lesson, it got me in trouble last year. I wasn’t ready and tried to create velocity, and it was wrong and I didn’t have the life in my ball. Radar guns are overrated. It’s more for the fans. Hitters will tell you. Hunter Pence grounded out. Davidson broke his bat. That’s all the information you need. It’s better for your mind.”

Jansen said he’s focusing on generating velocity with his legs and not by “muscling up” with his upper body.

“I feel greater than I have in a long time,” said Jansen, who is scheduled to pitch in Wednesday’s game. “When you’re in shape, it’s so much fun to pitch.”

Joe Kelly, Tony Cingrani, Josh Fields, JT Chargois and Adam McCreery followed Jansen with one scoreless inning each.

Verdugo off to strong start

If there’s a competition to be the left-handed hitter in a left-field platoon, Alex Verdugo has an early lead over Joc Pederson.

Verdugo added a pair of doubles and two RBIs on Sunday. Verdugo, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Dodgers' No. 1 prospect, has nothing left to prove in Triple-A. He's batting .333 this spring. Pederson, a proven MLB slugger with three 25-homer seasons, is struggling at 1-for-15.

“The first moment I put eyes on Alex three springs ago, he felt he was a Major League player,” said manager Dave Roberts. “The thing about Alex, he’s got that chip on his shoulder and that fight in him. That’s a good thing. It makes everybody around us better.”

In addition to Verdugo's two RBIs, the Dodgers got three RBIs from Austin Barnes and a solo homer from Omar Estevez, the club's No. 20 prospect.

Worth noting

• Kenta Maeda wasn’t sharp in the first inning of his start on Sunday, allowing a two-run homer to Matt Davidson. Maeda said he struggled spinning his slider in the dry air but expects that in the desert.

• Shortstop Corey Seager, limited to Minor League camp games for now, nonetheless said his recovery from elbow and hip operations continues without a setback.

“You always hope, but it’s definitely been way better and way smoother than I could have expected,” said Seager.

• Russell Martin won’t return to game action until Wednesday, Roberts said. The veteran catcher has been out since last Wednesday with a sore lower back.

Up next

Julio Urias will make his second start of the spring at 12:05 p.m. PT on Monday against Jeff Samardzija and the Giants at Scottsdale Stadium. Also scheduled to pitch for the Dodgers are Pedro Baez, Dylan Floro, Scott Alexander, Stetson Allie, Kevin Quackenbush and Daniel Corcino.