ST. PETERSBURG—Rays 2B Jorge Cantu was happy to be healthy and back in a Devil Rays uniform before Tuesday’s game.

Cantu returned to the Tampa Bay starting lineup Tuesday after missing six weeks on the disabled list with a non-displaced fractured bone on the top of his left foot. He will play second base and hit sixth in the Devil Rays lineup Tuesday night against the Angels.

The 24-year-old fouled a ball off his left foot in a game at Toronto on April 7. The injury was originally diagnosed as a bone bruise. He didn’t start for the next five games but started the next 10 games despite the pain, boosting his average from .200 to .291. But an MRI eventually revealed a broken bone and he was placed on the 15-day DL.

Now he says he’s completely healthy.

“I’m 100 percent,” Cantu said. “Otherwise I would be still over there. Everything is fine. Hopefully it’s like this for the rest of the season.”

Cantu was 6-for-31 (.194 average) with two homers and eight RBIs in his eight-game rehab assignment in Double-A Montgomery. He said he’s been without pain free for the past four or five games.

“Pretty much all I was doing every game was tracking pitches,” Cantu said. “Tracking pitches and getting my timing back. If I see one, I’ll hack at it. Pretty much every at bat take a strike.”