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The Washington Nationals arrived in San Diego last night just one-half game behind the Padres in the Wild Card standings. A Nationals win tonight, and the teams flip-flop spots. Can Patrick Corbin and his team replicate what they did with him on the mound in Boston? Corbin has pitched four games this season giving up 1-run or less, can he make it five games tonight?

The Washington Nationals had to play the Colorado Rockies last night and the umps. In the end, the Nats lost on a blown-save on a bases loaded pitch violation with Kyle Finnegan giving up four consecutive singles and a walk with not one out recorded. He just couldn’t miss a bat last night in his 18 pitches. Not one swing-and-miss induced. He might have blown a bigger lead if he had it. Just a gut punch of a loss in an 8-7 final. The Nats drop to 6-11 in one-run games which is one of the reasons this team isn’t running away with a Wild Card berth right now.

In last night’s game, there were 12 strike calls in favor of the Rockies last night and only four in favor of the Nationals. That is a net of eight incorrect calls that went against the Nationals. A huge disparity, and some calls were costlier than others. Then you had a steal from CJ Abrams that was overturned on a replay challenge. Two replay angles shown on TV backed up that the base was stolen. Was there another angle? Well, the replay umpire reversed the call. It was a huge play at the time, and could have blown the game open.

The Washington Nationals had an offensive explosion last night in Colorado. A much-needed win for the Nats to get them back on track. Tonight, it is Mitchell Parker‘s turn to take the mound, and he hopes to improve on his previous start.

The Washington Nationals flew out of Dulles Airport after 8 pm last night and landed in Denver just before midnight in the east. The team now has to get used to the altitude, and the hope is that tonight’s pitcher, DJ Herz, got into Colorado on an earlier flight to go for a jog and get acclimated to the thin air. Of course Herz is trying to replicate what he did last week in his gem. As they say in altitude, fastballs and changeups work the best, and that could help Herz. Sliders don’t always slide the same, and Herz is using it sparingly.

The Washington Nationals needed zeroes from Patrick Corbin to beat his old team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Corbin delivered four innings of zeroes on his way to a 5.0 inning, one-run start that put the Nats in a position to win the game 3-1.

The Washington Nationals got shutout last night with Jake Irvin struggling through 5.0 innings. This afternoon, they will count on Patrick Corbin to beat his old team, the Arizona Diamondbacks.