PHILADELPHIA -- This Nationals' season has been at times mind-boggling and frustrating for a team that began the year with such high aspirations. Their bullpen has struggled all year, their lineup has been depleted by injuries and their resolve has been tested through the first 32 games of this 2019 season. Yet these Nationals have shown that they will seldom go down quietly without a fight.\n\nOn Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park, they pulled off a gutsy and improbable come-from-behind victory in a 10-8 win over the Phillies, thanks to back-to-back homers in the eighth inning from
• [Box score](https://www.mlb.com/nationals/gameday/567078/final/box)\n\nThe win comes after the Nationals lost two position players [due to injury](https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/matt-adams-michael-taylor-hurt-in-saturday-s-game) in the early part of Saturday’s game, gave up five runs in the seventh inning to blow a 5-3 lead and responded with a four-run rally in the top of the eighth inning that emptied their bench, leading to infielder
\n\nJudging by the elated yelling inside the clubhouse and the remnants of cabbage on the floor after the game -- in what has become the postgame celebration reserved for big wins -- winning a game like this is part cathartic.\n\n“They never quit,” Nats manager Dave Martinez said. “They really feel like they’re in every game. And you can see their attitude. Tremendous game today. They fought today and were able to pull it out.”\n\nIt’s only Washington’s fifth win in the past 15 games, but it comes after both
So he allowed left-hander
Corbin got out of the jam and, after the Nats took the lead in the seventh, Martinez allowed Corbin to hit for himself rather than use a pinch-hitter, so that he could save one more bat for later in the game.
That situation arose in the eighth inning when the Phillies brought in left-hander Adam Morgan, who had not allowed a run in 16 games this season, to face light-hitting