Patrick Corbin was rolling. Corbin, 32, retired the first eight Philadelphia Phillies’ batters in last night’s game, and he got a grounder up the middle with his 38th pitch, but the ball hit the mound, skipped by Nationals’ second baseman César Hernández and into center, E:4, and Kyle Schwarber followed with a two-run home run, driving in the first two of the seven runs scored in the top of the third inning of the first game of the five-game, long-weekend series in Washington, D.C. last night.
Corbin ended up throwing 46 pitches in the third, giving up a double, walk, two RBI singles, a two-run double, a run on another error when Josh Bell threw by the covering pitcher on a grounder to first, and one last two-out single before he got out No.