After he’d recorded three quick outs in a 13-pitch seventh against Chicago’s Cubs last week, Patrick Corbin was up to just 77 pitches total, and he’d retired 21 of 22 batters in the outing in Nationals Park.
Back-to-back singles in the eighth inning ended Corbin’s outing, after 80 pitches in 7+ IP, and the two runners he left on came around to score for the only two runs he allowed in the start.
“I thought everything was good,” Corbin told reporters, as quoted by MASN’s Bobby Blanco.
“Fastball command was good. I used the changeup quite a bit today.