Arizona Diamondbacks young sensation Corbin Carroll smashed two home runs on Friday night against the Washington Nationals (1-6), the two-run shot giving his team a lead they didn’t give up in a 6-4 win.
It marked the third-year player’s fifth career game with multiple home runs. He finished 2 for 4 and drove in three RBIs with one walk.
Following a 380-foot solo homer to right field off of Nationals starter Jake Irvin, Carroll doubled the damage on Irvin with a 414-foot two-run home run that got shortstop Geraldo Perdomo through home plate. Carroll’s barreling contact resulted in 110.7 and 111.8 mph exit velocities, per Baseball Savant.
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Carroll’s second home run in Friday’s game marked his third of the season, a mark he did not reach in 2024 until July 7.
The Diamondbacks (5-3) trailed 3-1 after starting pitcher Brandon Pfaadt surrendered a two-run homer to second baseman Luis Garcia Jr. in the first frame.
Carroll scored all three runs in response to put the D-backs back on top after initially taking the lead 1-0 after a Josh Naylor RBI single got Garrett Hampson home– who replaced an apparently injured Ketel Marte at second.
Pfaadt put a Washington zero on the board in the bottom of the fifth to maintain Arizona’s one-run advantage. The recently extended right-hander closed with 6.0 innings pitched, striking out four batters while giving up four earned runs on six hits, including three home runs.
The closer-by-committee tandem of Shelby Miller, A.J. Puk and Justin Martinez only allowed two hits over the final three frames to maintain the two-run cushion. Martinez collected his first save of the season in his fourth appearance.
Perdomo was the other Arizona hitter with a solid outing, reaching base three times with three singles and converting two into runs on the scoreboard.
Defensively, the no-error performance in the nation’s capitol was just the D-backs’ third in eight games. Arizona split its opening series against the Chicago Cubs despite errors in three of the four contests (won just one of these games).
Diamondbacks-Nationals Game 2 pitching preview
Arizona southpaw Eduardo Rodriguez will face Washington lefty Mitchell Parker on Saturday.
In his first start of 2025, Rodriguez gave up three earned runs on three hits while striking out five and walking three in 5.1 innings pitched in an eventual 10-6 comeback win against the Cubs. Unlike last season, the 31-year-old entered this year’s spring training healthy and looks to keep it that way moving forward.
Parker, who also made his season debut on the mound last Sunday, threw 6.1 scoreless innings (seven hits) in a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, striking out five and walking two. The 25-year-old is in his second year with Washington and in MLB. He posted a 7-10 record in 2024 with a 4.29 ERA in 151.0 innings (29 games) that featured 133 strikeouts.
Game 2 of Diamondbacks-Nationals can be heard at 1:05 p.m. Saturday on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.
