Edward Cabrera tosses a gem as Miami Marlins shut out Oakland Athletics

OAKLAND

Edward Cabrera’s sturdy exhibiting in August hit a brand new excessive level on Monday.

The 24-year-old right-handed pitcher threw a career-high eight shutout innings because the Miami Marlins beat the Oakland Athletics 3-0 to start a three-game collection at RingCentral Coliseum. Miami improves to 53-69. Oakland falls to 45-78.

Cabrera has now pitched 22 2/3 scoreless innings in his 4 begins since coming back from a virtually two-month injured checklist stint on account of proper elbow tendonitis.

In his newest outing, Cabrera allowed simply 5 baserunners and just one after the third inning.

He labored round back-to-back walks to Tony Kemp and Jonah Bride to start his outing by placing out Sean Murphy, getting Seth Brown to fly out to left discipline and Shea Langeliers to floor into an inning-ending forceout.

In the third, Cabrera gave up back-to-back singles to Skye Bolt and Kemp earlier than getting Bride to hit right into a double play and placing out Murphy.

His solely blemish after that? A fourth-inning stroll to Langeliers with one out. Cabrera retired the ultimate 14 batters he confronted, together with 5 of his seven strikeouts.

Charles Leblanc hit a solo house run within the second inning to open scoring for the Marlins, who tacked on two extra runs within the third inning on back-to-back RBI doubles from Brian Anderson and JJ Bleday.

Tanner Scott recorded his 18th save of the season by pitching a scoreless ninth.

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