Patrick Corbin, who went 14-7 with a 3.25 ERA in the regular season and has both started and relieved throughout the postseason, has a chance Saturday to put the Nationals within one win of their first World Series title and the first championship for a Washington ballclub since 1924. It could be the perfect exclamation point on the season for a pitcher everyone thought at the outset of free agency would end up with the Yankees -- after all, the Yankees needed a starter, they have money, and Corbin is from the Syracuse area.

"No regrets," Corbin said before Game 3 about not signing with New York. "I obviously loved every second here. I always tell everybody I feel like I've been here longer, just such a great clubhouse."