Patrick Corbin ended a 10-start winless streak, allowing three runs over 7 1/3 innings to lead the Washington Nationals over the Colorado Rockies 7-3 on Thursday night.
Corbin (1-7) has not won since last Sept. 23 at Cincinnati in his next-to-last start of the season. He gave up seven hits, struck out three and walked two, lowering his ERA from 6.60 to 6.30.
César Hernández had a single, double, walk and scored twice for Washington, which took a 4-0 first-inning lead and improved to 7-17 at Nationals Park. Dee Strange-Gordan added a triple an a single.
Yonathan Daza and Elias Díaz each had two hits for Colorado, which has lost four of five. The Rockies went went 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position and hit into three double plays, dropping to 6-13 on the road. They are 14-11 at Coors Field.
Germán Márquez (1-5) gave up five runs and six hits in six innings, the sixth time in nine starts that Marquez allowed at least four earned runs.
Nelson Cruz’s RBI single, Josh Bell’s run-scoring doubled off the center-field fence and Yadiel Hernández’s two-run double built the first-inning lead.
Trailing 5-3, the Rockies loaded the bases with one out in the fifth, but Corbin got C.J. Cron to ground into a double play.
Colorado had first and second with one out in the seventh before Daza hit into a double play against Victor Arano.
TRAINER’S ROOM
ROCKIES: RHP Robert Stephenson (COVID-19 IL) is with the team and could be activated as early as Friday.
NATIONALS: RHP Joe Ross (right elbow bone spur removal), who felt tightness in his elbow during a rehabilitation start Tuesday at Double-A Harrisburg, underwent an MRI that showed more of a sprain than previous MRIs. Ross, who had Tommy John surgery in 2017, will undergo further tests before a course of action is determined.
UP NEXT
Rockies: LHP Austin Gomber (2-4, 4.11 ERA) held the Nationals to two runs on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings in a win at Coors Field on May 4. He struck out seven and walked six.
Nationals: RHP Aaron Sanchez (3-3, 7.16 ERA) allowed seven runs – six earned – on six hits in 4 1/3 innings of a loss at Colorado on May 5.
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