SD Corbin:
Last game, Patrick Corbin allowed 11 hits in his second start in three games, but neither the starter nor the manager were too concerned about that aspect of the game at Nationals Park.
“I’ve thrown some good pitches and I’m swinging early,” Corbyn said of his starter’s 102 pitches in six innings, which ended in a 4-2 loss. miami marlins.
“There’s not much you can do about a few failures or a ball that goes well,” the left-hander added.
“That kind of thing happens on days when they’re swinging early and the ball goes through.”
“It’s just a lot of singles,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters. “I thought he threw a good ball. Walk, he gave the first batter a walk. [in the third]the man ended up scoring, but they moved the baseball and put the ball in play.
“As we know, sometimes they go up there and try to swing on the first pitch because he’s around the plate and he throws a strike and they hit a few bases that way. But he gave us strength six times.”
The veteran extended his record of four winless starts in the game, posting a 4.91 ERA, a 6.00 FIP and a .355/.421/.538 batting average in 22 games.
Corbin, wanting to end his winning streak, hit a homer to center field in the first at-bat of the Nationals’ series opener against the Padres at Petco Park in San Diego.
Kim Ha-sun threw a 1-1 sinker in the middle of the zone to the center, a 411-foot shot, his seventh of the season, to give the home team a 1-0 lead.
Corbyn held it until four games, but a leadoff single by Jake Cronenworth (1-0 sinker inside), hit by pitch to Trent Grisham, (0-1 Sinker too far inside), a passed ball, and Kim’s two-run single to put the Padres ahead 3-0 over southpaws and the Nats.
Walks to Fernando Tatis, Jr. and Juan Soto put the bases loaded with one out, Manny Machado scored one with a Nakamae grounder, and Luis Garcia’s ingenious grab flip gave the Nationals two outs and four runs. . 0. Xander Bogaerts then pinch hitter and hit a 3-run home run to left center. 404 feet 7-0 Padres. Mid-ranking 1-1 changeup.
Key moments:
• CJ Abrams hit a two-strike curveball and hit a one-out double to right in the top of the third, when the Nationals were leading 1-0. Derek Hill, who had hit infield in the previous at-bat, tripled on Abrams’ 13th double of the season, but Padres starter Joe Musgrove struck out Lane Thomas and Luis Garcia hit a ground ball. tied the runners. .
• Lane Thomas started the series in San Diego with a 10-game hitting streak, during which he went 15-for-40 (.375 average), 6 doubles, 3 homers, 7 RBIs, 1 walk, and 8 runs scored. was recorded. stretch. Thomas went 0-for-3 with a 2K in the first three against Padres starter Joe Musgrove and was taken out of the game when he got out of hand.
In the sixth inning, when the Nationals were leading 7-0, with two outs Jaimer Candelario flew to left field and Joey Meneses scored an RBI to break Musgrove’s shutout with a low liner from a 1-0 cutter. rice field. 7-1.
Bullpen action:
Joe La Solsa made his Nationals debut in the bottom of the sixth, slugging out two batters, but was shut down by a Trent Grisham single. Chad Cool took the mound and hit 3 on a center fly to the track to make it still 7-1 Padres.
Cool allowed four more runs, but was rescued in the seventh inning at 11-1 San Diego.
In the bottom of the eighth at 13-1, Juan Soto hit a two-run off Thaddeus Ward.
In the ninth inning, Michael Chevis hit a pinch-hit home run off Padres lefty Ray Carr, followed by a double by Derek Hill and an RBI double by CJ Abrams to score, making it 13–3.
Back page – border crossed:
Ahead of Thursday’s one-off make-up game against the D-backs in Washington, D.C., Davey Martinez spoke at his pregame press conference about the need to play clean balls if the Nationals are going to play every night. Told.
His club gave Arizona 27 or more outs and four earned runs in a 5-3 loss. He played far from clean baseball.
Asked if there is a line that needs to be crossed before dealing with the club’s mistakes and sloppy play, Martinez said it has already been done.
“That line has been crossed. It really has,” said the sixth-grade captain.
“I have conversations, and we will talk about them tomorrow. Sometimes we play really well.Sometimes we play really well with good teams.And if you happen to get hit, you get hit.That’s part of it.But beating yourself, that’s not us. , it’s not — I won’t allow it, it’s not acceptable, so there will definitely be a conversation about it tomorrow, but we definitely have to keep this tune , we will continue to work with them to get better.”
It was the Nats’ 14th loss in 18 games played this month. And it was especially frustrating for managers because the mistake ultimately cost them so much.
“You can’t give a good team 28-29 outs,” he said, echoing his mantra/message. “you can’t.
“I think I had four earned runs today.
“So we have to improve it more, we really do, and then we will be able to compete.
“So we have to come back tomorrow like I said and just have a good, clean game of baseball and see where we are.”