This could be the first for baseball.
Patrick Corbin barely arrived through his beginning on the mound on Wednesday to earn his first victory of the season despite suffering what is a poisonous bite suspended in his foot suffered two days before.
The left-hander of the Rangers briefly had difficulty walking through the Club House, but still managed to allow only a race in 5 1/3 entries in the 3-1 victory over Los Angelinos.
“They said something bit me, but I still don’t know what it was,” Corbin said Thursday. “I’ve never had something like that. It was very strange.”
“I was lucky to overcome yesterday,” he added. “I have time to recover and be good to go.”
Only a few hours before the excursion, the manager of the Rangers, Bruce Bochy, told Kennedi Landry of MLB that it was all if the two-time All-Star would have reached the mound.
“We are rushing to launch,” Bochy said. “He had a bite. He could barely walk when he entered the Club house. Some child or poison entered there. I am not sure that it was a spider or what was 50/50 about whether or not it would start.”
There was swelling around the invisible brand of Wednesday morning that Corbin said it was “tolerable” once his ankle was wrapped.
“It was really bad in the morning,” said Corbin. “Just a really swollen foot … I was sure I was going to throw that morning. My wife was really worried. I entered early [Wednesday] To put some treatment and [went] of that. “
However, when Corbin woke up on Thursday, he was sure he wouldn’t need to waste time despite pain.
Corbin, 35, has now had two openings for the Rangers (12-7) and has an effectiveness of 3.86 and six strikeouts in its 13th year in the major.
It has allowed four races (all won) in 10 hits and three walks.
