Patrick Corbin needed just 74 pitches to get through six scoreless against the Miami Marlins in Saturday afternoon’s game in the nation’s capital, working around one-out singles in each of the first two frames with inning-ending double plays both times.
Corbin retired 13 of 14 Marlins’ hitters after the one-out single in the second, as Washington took a 5-0 lead with a five-run fourth, and he returned to the mound in Nationals Park in the top of the seventh inning and retired the side in order in a 15-pitch frame which left him at 89 pitches overall with 16 of the last 17 batters set down.