ANALYSIS/OPINION:
There was a narrative taking root early in the National League Division Series that the Washington Nationals could somehow transform their train wreck of a bullpen into a lockdown operation by simply using their impressive starting trio of Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin.
Well, Sunday night’s Game 3 at Nationals Park should spray a little weedkiller on that idea.
Patrick Corbin, 14-7 in regular season starts and who had given up just one earned run against the Dodgers in six innings in his Game 1 start, entered Sunday’s game in the sixth inning as the latest ingredient in this widely-hailed Nationals’ experiment.