Over the course of his first three spring training starts, Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Andrew Cashner struggled, to say the least. While he produced eight strikeouts in eight innings, he allowed eight earned runs on 12 hits, getting hit particularly hard (and often) with two outs.
Cashner climbed the hill on Monday afternoon against the Detroit Tigers, working five innings of one-run ball, appearing to be much more prepared for the upcoming regular season.
Cashner’s outing didn’t start out on a very high note. Surrendering a lot of hard contact and opposite-field hits, on top of a solo home run by Nicholas Castellanos, his Monday outing appeared to be going just as his previous three had.