Back spasms forced Patrick Corbin off of the mound in his next-to-last outing this past season, but the 33-year-old left-hander returned for one last turn in the Nationals’ rotation, taking a loss (his 19th in 31 starts overall) in a rough appearance against Philadelphia’s Phillies on a rainy afternoon in Washington, D.C. back in early October.
“I thought he threw the ball fairly well early, and then got hit a little bit,” Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez said, explaining to reporters it was hard to assess Corbin and his work given the conditions in the nation’s capital that day, “… and then all of a sudden the field got really wet and kind of sloppy.