“It was an unbelievable start,” Davey Martinez said of the seven scoreless Patrick Corbin got through in his outing against the Seattle Mariners on the road in T-Mobile Park. “I mean, his four-seamer was good today, his two-seamer was good, and his slider was really, really good. So he kept the guys off-balance, but gave us everything we needed. It was exactly what we needed today.”
Corbin, who’s been through a lot over the last few years, struggling to pick up where he left off at the end of the first year of his 6-year/$140M deal with the Nationals over the four that have followed, didn’t take much time basking in the glow of his best outing of 2023 so far.