The boys kept fighting, rallying from a 4-2 deficit to tie it at 4-4, then tying it up at 5-5 when they fell behind again in the series finale with the Arizona Diamondbacks in Chase Field, but they couldn’t come back after falling behind 7-5 in the seventh, and Washington’s Nationals lost a second straight game and the series to the D-backs after winning Friday’s opener.
Corbin vs the D-backs: Patrick Corbin was (56-54) with a 3.91 ERA, a 3.59 FIP, 271 walks, and 897 Ks in 172 games, 154 starts, and 945 2⁄3 IP for the D-backs between 2012-2018, before he signed with the Nationals this past winter, agreeing to 6-year/$140M free agent deal, and as he headed into his first start back in Arizona’s Chase Field, the 30-year-old left-hander was in the midst of an eight-outing unbeaten streak, over which he was (4-0) with a 1.