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    Patrick Corbin after loss to Marlins

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    Torey Lovullo on Patrick Corbin’s outing vs. Marlins

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    Torey Lovullo on ‘character win’ in Pittsburgh

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    Torey Lovullo on Patrick Corbin’s outing, loss to Brewers

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    Diamondbacks’ Zack Godley talks after win over Mets

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    Torey Lovullo after D-Backs’ latest loss to Rockies

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    Taijuan Walker after loss to Rockies

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    Patrick Corbin after being roughed up by Rockies

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    Manager Torey Lovullo after win over Rockies

MIAMI – After a month of struggles, left-hander Patrick Corbin made changes on Friday. He started his pregame routine a bit early with the hope it might help address his first-inning issues. He abandoned his change-up, a pitch opposing hitters had been hammering, and redoubled his efforts on his fastball and slider.

But Corbin was hit hard again on Friday night, allowing five runs in five-plus innings of a 7-5 loss. He gave up three homers, including two in a four-run first inning. The poor results that dogged him in May followed him into June.

Corbin had few answers for what happened. Unlike last week in Milwaukee, when he acknowledged the mistakes he made that led to a loss to the Brewers, he did not feel he threw all that poorly against the Marlins.

He hung a slider to Christian Yelich, a ball that was sent into the second deck in right field for a two-run homer in the first. But other than that, Corbin did not think the results aligned with the performance.

In six starts since the beginning of last month, he has logged 31 innings and allowed 31 runs. He threw well in April, posting a 2.29 ERA in six starts, but he can’t put his finger on what’s changed in the interim.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I feel pretty much the same, just kind of maybe missing some spots, falling behind. I don’t know. It’s something I’m trying to figure out. I want to go out there and be aggressive. And when I do, they’re just either jumping on it or – I don’t know.”

For their part, manager Torey Lovullo and catcher Chris Iannetta seemed to see things similarly. Lovullo focused on what happened after the four-run first, on how Corbin gave up just one earned run in the next four innings.

“I thought he threw the ball really well after that first inning,” Lovullo said.

Iannetta was even more bullish. He thought the home run Justin Bour hit in the first – another two-run shot that made it 4-0 – was an impressive display of strength, not an example of bad pitching. And he said the outing was “definitely a step in the right direction” despite the results.

“Something that you don’t see on TV or as a bystander is the life on his fastball or the life on his slider,” Iannetta said. “That was definitely back to where it was prior to this stretch. From a stuff perspective, he took a big step forward in the right direction.”

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Although the change-up has not been effective for Corbin this season – opponents were hitting .348 with a .913 slugging off it entering Friday, with much of the damage coming recently – he said he didn’t use the pitch because the Marlins had three lefties in the lineup along with right-handed hitters who hit that type of pitch well.

Still, for whatever reason, the Marlins didn’t have trouble hitting him. Of the 54 fastballs Corbin threw, he induced only one swing-and-miss. After giving up three hard-hit balls in the first – the two homers and a Giancarlo Stanton double that’s probably gone in most other parks – he allowed another six balls that came off the Marlins’ bats at 95 mph or harder.

Corbin’s struggles in the rotation date back not just to last season, when he was bumped to the bullpen for the season’s final six weeks, but even to late 2013. In 59 starts since he began to fade down the stretch that year, he has a 5.29 ERA. His career ERA in 101 starts is 4.40.

Lovullo was asked if the club will talk about whether to give Corbin another start.

“Really, at this point, it’s not an issue for any of us,” Lovullo said. “He’s been throwing the ball good enough, and we haven’t really even had that type of conversation. …

“For me, I think he deserves to go back out there. He deserves to continue to start and work his way through these types of moments.”

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Saturday’s game

Diamondbacks at Marlins

When: 1:10 p.m.

Where: Marlins Park, Miami.

Pitchers: Diamondbacks RHP Randall Delgado (1-0, 3.47) vs. Marlins RHP Edinson Volquez (1-7, 4.44).

TV/Radio: FSAZ/KMVP-FM (98.7), KHOV-FM (105.1).

Delgado gave the Diamondbacks 5 2/3 innings on 92 pitches on Monday in Pittsburgh, an impressive outing given that it was just his second in the starting rotation. … Delgado walked none and struck out eight. … Marlins OF Marcell Ozuna is 3 for 5 with a double against Delgado in his career. 2B Dee Gordon is 4 for 7 with a double. … Volquez is coming off one of his better starts of the year. He gave up one run in six innings against the Phillies last week, picking up his first win of the season. … He received a two-year, $22 million deal from the Marlins in the offseason. … 1B Paul Goldschmidt is 7 for 14 (.500) with four doubles and a home run off Volquez.

Coming up

Sunday: At Miami, 10:10 a.m., Diamondbacks RHP Braden Shipley (0-1, 6.75) vs. Marlins RHP Vance Worley (0-2, 4.50).

Monday: Off.

Tuesday: At Chase Field, 6:40 p.m., Diamondbacks LHP Robbie Ray (5-3, 3.00) vs. Padres RHP Dinelson Lamet (2-0, 2.70).

Wednesday: At Chase Field, 6:40 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Zack Greinke (7-3, 3.06) vs. Padres RHP Luis Perdomo (0-2, 5.01).