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Pena chasing home run history ... and .200

Posted Jun 13, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Jun 13, 2010 at 04:44 PM

ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG - Pena bounces to first in the eighth inning. Unless the Rays rally, it doesn’t look like Pena’s going to extend his streak of homers in consecutive games to seven.

Marlins take a 6-1 lead into the 9th.

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Pena took a called third strike to open the sixth. He’s 0-for-3.

What’s more, the Marlins rocked Jeff Niemann for two home runs and four runs in the top of the sixth to take a 5-1 lead.

Yankees are beating Houston in the Bronx, so the Rays need to rally over the next three innings to remain in first place.

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Pena gave the fans inside the Trop a brief thrill when he sent a fly ball to right field in the fourth inninning. Not nearly deep enough.

Carl Crawford did tag and go to third on Pena’s soft liner to right.

Pena grounded to first in his first at-bat.

Pena is looking to join Kevin Mench of Texas (2006) and Jim Thome of Cleveland (2002), who both homered in seven straight games.

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Carlos Pena enters this afternoon’s game with the Marlins chasing the major league record for most consecutive games with a home run and hoping to get his average above .200.

Dale Long, Dan Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr., share the record with home runs in eight consecutive games.

Pena, who’s batting .196, has homered in six straight games.

Jeff Niemann looks to improve his recored to 7-0 as he and the Rays try to take 2 of 3 from the Marlins.

Here are the lineups:

MARLINS
Chris Coghlan LF
Gaby Sahncez 1B
Hanley Ramirez SS
Jorge Cantu DH
Dan Uggla 2B
Cody Ross CF
Mike Stanton RF
Wes Helms 3B
Ronny Paulino C
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Chris Volstad RHP

RAYS
Jaso DH
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Zobrist RF
Upton CF
Shoppach C
Rodriguez 2B
Brignac SS
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Niemann P