Patrick Corbin celebrated his 35th birthday with one of his best starts of the season, going six innings on 104 pitches on Friday night, in which he gave up just three hits and one run.
Corbin held the Cincinnati Reds in check in the series and “second-half” opener in Nationals Park, striking out six without issuing a walk in an 8-5 win for Washington, in which he had 16 swinging and 12 called strikes.
“Corbin was good. Corbin was really good,” Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez said after the win in the nation’s capital. “He pitched really well.