Patrick Corbin gave up just one hit, a double, through five scoreless innings on the mound in Citizens Bank Park last night, though he walked seven [s-e-v-e-n, se-ven!] batters.
Corbin managed to strand all of the baserunners, however, and was up to just 83 pitches in a 0-0 game between the Nationals and Phillies, after working out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the third and leaving the seventh free pass on in the home-half of the fifth.
Washington’s 34-year-old lefty got a run to work with when Joey Meneses and Keibert Ruiz singled in back-to-back at-bats to start the top of the sixth, knocking Philadelphia’s starter Aaron Nola out before Ildemaro Vargas doubled off reliever Matt Strahm to drive Meneses in, 1-0 Nationals, but that was it through six for the club which got no-hit in the third of four in Philly on Wednesday night.