Forget Peter Parker – Patrick Corbin is Spider-Man

The classic line, "With great power, great responsibility" applies not only to the superhero Spider-Man, but now it seems to apply equally to pitchers on the baseball field.

Patrick Corbin, the starting pitcher for the Rangers, scored the winning shot against the Angels on Wednesday night, conceding just one point on 5.1 innings. But the start-up almost didn't happen. "We weren't even sure if he would be able to get on the board," Rangers head coach Bruce Bochy revealed before the game, "and he was bitten by an unknown creature and could barely walk when he walked into the locker room." Some kind of venom enters the body, not sure if it is a spider or not. The probability that he will be able to start is only 50%. "

Corbyn, who recently stayed at the home of former teammate Max Scherzer, said he had an accident while playing outside with his children on Monday's offseason. "When I went back to the house to prepare dinner, I noticed that my right foot was unusually painful," Corbin recalls. Before Wednesday's start, he suffered severe swelling in his foot and arrived early on the pitch for treatment.

"I don't know what I was bitten in, but the medical team managed to manage the injury," the left pitcher said, "and it's still in pain, it's weird." I'm lucky to finish yesterday and have plenty of time to recover. Perhaps the suspected spider bite really gave him superpowers — Corbyn faced just 16 hitters in the first five innings of the game, his best record since April 17, 2018, when he threw a 1-hit against the Giants. His first six strikeouts all came in the first round of play-and-line matchups, the first time he has done so since his August 3, 2021 game against the Phillies.

Thursday's examination showed that the injury is still recovering, but the medical team confirmed that proper treatment will not affect the next board. "It was a terrible morning, my whole foot was so swollen," Corbyn admits, "that I wasn't sure if I could pitch and my wife was very worried." But once you get on the pitcher's mound, you forget about the pain and compete with all your might...... This is the first time in my career that I've been in this accident and I hope to recover soon. At present, the Ranger medical team is fully assisting with the treatment, and Corbin said that he will strictly follow the doctor's instructions and prepare for the next start.