by Bob McManaman - Sept. 16, 2012 04:21 PM
azcentral sports
PHOENIX -- The past few days have been pretty good for Diamondbacks pitcher Patrick Corbin.
On Friday night, the Mobile BayBears defeated Jackson to win the Double-A Southern League championship series, earning Corbin a title ring.
On Saturday night, the Reno Aces defeated Omaha to win the Triple-A Pacific Coast League championship series, giving Corbin yet another title ring.
And on Sunday, Corbin pitched a career-high eight innings and drove in four runs with a bases-clearing triple and a broken-bat single to help his own cause in leading the Diamondbacks to a 10-2 rout of the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field.
Two championship rings from his two stints this season in the minors and then a win and his first four RBIs in the majors. Not a bad 72 hours for the left-handed rookie from Clay, N.Y., who had been winless in his past four starts for Arizona.
"Yeah," Corbin said, beaming widely.
Corbin was effective and efficient, throwing 93 pitches and allowing two runs with just one walk and five strikeouts.
"Miggy called a great game. I don't think I shook him off once today," Corbin (6-7) said of catcher Miguel Montero. "When you can go out there and just go with the catcher, you're just in rhythm the whole game.
"I didn't really think too much out there, just whatever he called I threw. You can see why they signed Miggy (to a long-term extension) and kept him around here."
It was Corbin's hitting -- and baserunning on the triple he hit off Ryan Vogelsong in the fourth inning -- that everyone wanted to talk to him about.
With the bases loaded, Vogelsong started off Corbin with back-to-back inside fastballs. The pitcher never took his bat off his shoulders. Then Giants first baseman Brandon Belt quit protecting the line and Vogelsong threw a heater right over the plate.
"That's what I was sitting on and I just put the bat on the ball and it got by him," Corbin said.
Corbin flew around the bases and finished his triple with a headfirst slide into third, a move manager Kirk Gibson doesn't like to see out of his pitchers. Gibson also prefers that his pitchers only run at 75 percent when rounding the bases.
"I didn't care there," he said, smiling, adding of the headfirst slide, "It's kind of risky for a pitcher, for sure. A guy could drop his knee down on you or put his foot on you."
Corbin said he always slid headfirst as a kid.
"In Little League and stuff, that's what I did a lot," he said.
It's only the second time in franchise history a pitcher has cleared the bases with a triple. Ian Kennedy did it earlier this season against the Rockies.
As for Corbin's four RBIs, it's the second-most by a pitcher in club history behind Micah Owings' six RBIs in 2007 vs. the Braves.
Corbin said he'll keep the bat -- or at least pieces of it -- as a memento. He shattered it upon his seventh-inning RBI blooper to center.
"Those are my first RBIs, so I'll probably just keep it," he said. "I'll always remember those hits. ... I thought I squared it up, honestly, but the bat broke."
The win was pretty important, too. It helped the team avoid a three-game series sweep and it snapped a 0-3 skid for Corbin.
"We've been fighting all year and it was nice to see us go out there and put up some runs today," he said. "I'm glad I got to save the bullpen a little bit, especially with an off day (Monday).
"We're still going to go out there, work hard, and make a push at this."
Recap
After managing only four runs in two previous losses to the San Francisco Giants, the Diamondbacks found a catalyst in starter Patrick Corbin. Not only did Corbin deliver four RBIs but he also tossed eight innings of two-run ball to help the Diamondbacks avoid a sweep on Sunday at Chase Field.
Big inning: With runners on second and third and one out in the fourth, Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong intentionally walked Gerardo Parra to face Corbin. Down 1-2 in the count, Corbin connected on a fastball that sailed down the first-base line and into the corner in right field. That cleared the bases and ignited the Diamondbacks offense.
"They tried to pound him in, and he got the head (of the bat) out just enough," manager Kirk Gibson said. "We saw Patrick earlier in the year swinging the bat really well. He hasn't lately, but he had a huge day today."
Two batters later, Aaron Hill smacked a double down the third-base line to add two more runs.
More than four: In scoring 10 runs, the Diamondbacks snapped a streak of 12 consecutive home games in which they produced four runs or less. Had they failed to do so, this team would have set the club record and moved past the 2004 Diamondbacks who went on a similar skid from Aug. 20 to Sept. 15.
Starting off strong: Outfielder Adam Eaton appears to have found a home at the top of the batting order. He's been in that spot for the past three series, and he turned in one of his more-effective performances Sunday. Eaton had a single, three walks and scored two runs, which included a dogged effort from first to home off Hill's double in the fourth.
"You have a guy that's disruptive at the top of the order, that's what you want," Gibson said. "It's key to get your guys on in front of your big boys."
--Sarah McLellan
View from the press box: Through five games of this eight-game homestand, the Diamondbacks went 3-2 against both teams ahead of them in the division. But the team right behind them, the Padres, is up next and San Diego has won seven in a row at Chase Field and eight of the past nine meetings overall. The Diamondbacks have to change that momentum when the series begins Tuesday.
--Bob McManaman
17 Sep, 2012
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