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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Home run derby at the Ed

Posted Mar 3, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Mar 3, 2010 at 05:01 PM

The Rays like Sean Rodriguez because of his power and the infielder put that on display with his first swing of the year, sending a baseball over the left field fence to lead off the top of the seventh against the Orioles at Ed Smith Stadium.

Rodriguez’s blast was the fifth of the game and the first by a Ray.

Orioles DH Josh Bell unloaded on Matt Garza in the third inning, a solo blast that gave the O’s a 1-0 lead.

Rays lefty Heath Phillips, either struggling with command or victimized by the steady wind blowing to the outfield, allowed three home runs in his two innings.

Nick Markakis got Phillips with a solo shot in the fifth inning.

Former Rays minor leaguer Rhyne Hughes (sent to the Orioles last season in the Gregg Zaun trade) hit a two-run homer off Hughes in the sixth inning. Bell then followed with his second homer of the day, giving Bell homers from both sides of the plate.

How many times do you see that in a Grapefruit League lidlifter?

Twice, if you’re here in Sarasota.

Hughes hit his second homer of the day, a two-run bomb off Jason Cromer in the seventh inning. That came after Scott Moore took Cromer deep earlier in the inning.