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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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Looking for a lift in series finale

Posted Sep 6, 2009 by Tribune Sports

Updated Sep 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM

ST. PETERSBURG—Good morning from the Trop.

Rock music is blasting in the clubhouse, but the mood isn’t exactly upbeat and energetic after last night’s late collapse and 8-6 loss to the Tigers. That one dropped the Rays to 1-4 on their six-game homestand.

They’re six games behind the Red Sox and four behind the Rangers in the wild-card race, and while they’re still alive mathematically, their play of late has inspired little confidence they can make up the deficit. Rookie Wade Davis takes the mound in this afternoon’s series finale against the Tigers.

Here’s the lineup:

Jason Bartlett, SS
Car Crawford, LF
Ben Zobrist, RF
Carlos Pena, 1B
Pat Burrell, DH
Evan Longoria, 3B
Akinori Iwamura, 2B
Dioner Navarro, C
Fernando Perez, CF
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Wade Davis, RHP