Back in his groove, the Rays' No. He struck out five and issued a pair of walks. Box score The year-old southpaw settled in early and notched three punchouts in the first two innings. He worked out of a two-on, no-out situation in the third and only allowed one baserunner -- on an error -- the rest of the way. He pitched seven innings a couple of times last season, so we weren't worried about sending him back out there.
We just turned the month of April over and for him to do this relatively early at this level, it's a really good thing to see.
But he just learned to slow himself down a bit to feel his balance point and continue to drive the baseball on-line to the catcher's glove. The results started to reflect Cabrera's labor.
In his April 16 start against the same Lakeland team, the left-hander allowed an unearned run on one hit and one walk over five innings in a hard-luck loss.
He just did the same thing tonight. It didn't take him another inning or another hitter. He was able to just refocus and get himself back in the zone. It was a tremendous outing by him.
