Patrick Corbin, if he’d stayed on his regular schedule, was lined up to start Tuesday’s series opener in Detroit, MI, but before the finale of the four-game set with Atlanta in the nation’s capital on Sunday, Washington’s manager Davey Martinez announced the Nationals’ trio of starters against the Tigers as Mitchell Parker, Jake Irvin, and MacKenzie Gore.
So… no Corbin this time through? What is the thinking there?
“Just to give him a little bit of a breather,” Martinez explained. “We take care of all our young guys, but we’ve got to take care of our veteran guys, too.