“He’s been really good, really good this year,” Davey Martinez said of Patrick Corbin’s development after a tough three years in the Nationals rotation for the 33-year-old southpaw, who started 14 games this season. Told.
Corbyn contributed to Washington’s victory world series After starting the first season of his six-year/$140 million contract with DC in 2019, the starter has seemed at times lost over the past three seasons and has been unable to work out what’s wrong. I didn’t.
But the results earlier this year were much better, if not necessarily great (4.81 ERA in 1978, 5.04 FIP, .299/.345/.471 vs. hitters 2⁄3 IP before Sunday).
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“He’s hitting the strike zone and getting ahead of hitters,” Martinez said of Corbin’s accomplishments so far this year. “His slider is a lot better. increase. [previously].
“And that was part of his plan,” added the director. “I’m trying to get a little more use out of my changeup, but please keep the ball down.”
Corbin allowed four hits (2 of them were home runsIn the Nationals’ 6-1 loss, he had five walks and two earned runs in five IPs. Houston Astros last week.
Back home in the capital on Sunday afternoon, the left-hander allowed 11 hits, four runs, four walks and a 3K in six innings of 102 pitches.
Corbin didn’t whiff or whiff too much against Miami, whiffing just five strikeouts overall, but he had 16 cold strikes and 12 sinkers, but he had a long day on the mound. .
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Corbyn allowed a series of singles centered on wild pitches, but in the second inning, he scored one run with bases loaded and a loose grounder to make it 1-0, but the damage was limited.
In the 3rd inning of 2-0, he added one point with a walk, two singles and a sack fly, and in the top of the fourth inning he added two singles, a throwing error, and a sack fly with the away Marlins leading behind Lane Thomas. returned to He hit a home run in the bottom of the third to tie the game at 2-2. An RBI in the second half of the inning extended the lead to 4-2, and the game ended as it was, and Fish started the season with six straight wins against rivals in the National League East.However, Stone Garrett scored a fly to the deep center with 2 on in the 6th inning, and came close to bringing the Nationals to the top.).
“They’re not pitching very well right now,” Martinez said of the team’s struggle to score after losing 6-5, 5-2, 4-2 to the Marlins this weekend. Told. Quoted by Mark Zuckerman of MASN.
“We chase a lot. We can, but right now we can’t hit the ball.”
Corbyn noted that the Marlins didn’t hit particularly hard either, but they did hit enough to get past the plate.
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“Throwing some good pitches and they’re swinging early,” explained the southpaw. “There’s not much you can do about some misses and ground balls that go well. That’s what happens on days when they’re swinging early and the ball goes through.”
That takes nothing away from what the Miami hitter has accomplished.
“They made some good at-bats,” Corbyn said. Quoted by Washington Poster reporter Andrew Golden:
“Today they weren’t chasing as much. They swung early and put the bat on the ball. Some of those balls fell, some of them didn’t hit hard, but it got worse. We made some good pitches in some jams and stayed in the game, but it didn’t work out for us.”
