Yarbrough fired two perfect innings in Friday's 5-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Tigers, striking out five of the six batters he faced.
Yarbrough recorded punch-outs of Alex Collins and Tyler Collins to start the game before striking out the side in the second. He allowed only Nick Castellanos to reach base, and that only came as a result of a misplayed fly ball by the debuting Mallex Smith. The dominant outing was a sharp departure from his spring debut on Feb. 26 versus the Red Sox, when Yarbrough had surrendered three earned runs on five hits in just one inning, and the improvement made an impression on manager Kevin Cash. "I thought Ryan Yarbrough was pretty impressive. Set the tone early. He even got a lot of compliments from the home plate umpire, Brian O'Nora. He kind of said, 'Who is that guy?' Just worked quick, efficient, had late action to his pitches."