“He faced 10 hitters. He was behind five, five of them,” Davey Martinez said after Patrick Corbin gave up seven hits, a walk, and six earned runs in 2⁄3 of an inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers last July, a 45-pitch disaster of an outing in what ended up a 7-1 loss.
“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,” Martinez explained after lifting Corbin in the bottom of the first.