Patrick Corbin’s start against the Dodgers in Los Angeles last week was an unmitigated two-thirds-of-an-inning disaster of an outing, in which he gave up seven hits and six earned runs in a 7-1 loss on the road in which he threw 45 pitches before his manager pulled the plug on his appearance.
“He faced 10 hitters. He was behind five, five of them,” Martinez said. “And then the guys he got ahead of, he just couldn’t put them away. That was the big deal right there. And he had a lot of pitches, so we had to go get him.