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Cabrera Shuts Down Shuckers, 5-3

(Marvin Gentry)
April 21, 2018

BILOXI, Mis. - For the first time this season, the Biscuits (5-11) have won back-to-back games. Génesis Cabrera (1-2) tossed a gem and Montgomery used some early runs to take their second series opener over the Biloxi Shuckers (10-6) in 2018 in the first of their five-game road trip, 5-3,

BILOXI, Mis. - For the first time this season, the Biscuits (5-11) have won back-to-back games. Génesis Cabrera (1-2) tossed a gem and Montgomery used some early runs to take their second series opener over the Biloxi Shuckers (10-6) in 2018 in the first of their five-game road trip, 5-3, on Saturday night at MGM Park.
The Biscuits, who used a seven-run fifth to take down the Smokies in their series finale with Tennessee on Friday night, got the ball rolling in the first against Shuckers starter Cody Ponce (1-1) with singles from Michael Russell and Nick Solak. Next up was Brett Sullivan, and the Biscuits catcher smashed a two-run double into right-center field to put Montgomery up, 2-0, after an unbelievable hook slide by Solak on a close play at the plate.
An inning later, Russell poked an RBI-single to extend that lead to three, and in the fourth, Jermaine Palacios added one of his own to extend it to 4-0.
Cabrera, who won for the first time this season in his fourth start, struck out the side in the first and was cruising until the fourth when he allowed a single to Troy Stokes Jr. and back-to-back walks to Jake Gatewood and Blake Allemand to load the bases. Then Dylan Moore stepped up and clubbed a bases-clearing triple off the top of the wall in right-center field to pull the Shuckers within a run.
But those are the only two hits Biloxi would record on the night as Cabrera went seven innings for the victory, and Mike Franco closed things outwith a two-inning save as the Biscuits added an insurance run in the ninth on a wild pitch uncorked by Nate Griep.
The win was the 300th in manager Brady Williams' Biscuit career.
The Biscuits will try to make it three in a row on Sunday when two former big leaguers square off in Zach Lee (1-0) and Wade Miley (0-0) at 2:05 PM.
The Biscuits will return to Montgomery on Thursday to open up a five-game series with the Mobile BayBears when it will be NASCAR night featuring a T-Shirt giveaway presented by Gipson's Tire Pros at 6:35 PM.