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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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Rain threatens Boston opener

Posted Sep 11, 2009 by Tribune Sports

Updated Sep 11, 2009 at 04:10 PM

UPDATED WITH LINEUP

BOSTON—It’s gray and gloomy here at Fenway Park, fitting weather for the Rays’ current predicament entering a three-game series with the Red Sox tonight.

This was supposed to be a critical showdown that would help determine who gets the American League wild-card playoff berth. But the Rays have dropped eight consecutive games, and they’re 9 1/2 games behind the Red Sox and 7 1/2 behind the Rangers. Even if they sweep the weekend series, they’d still be 6 1/2 games behind Boston with 19 to play.

Rain threatens at least the scheduled 7:10 p.m. first pitch tonight. There’s an 85 percent chance of rain at 4 p.m. (it’s 4 now, and it isn’t raining), 35 percent at 7 p.m. and 85 percent at 8 p.m., according to Weather.com.

Here’s Tampa Bay’s lineup for tonight:

Jason Bartlett, SS
Carl Crawford, LF
Evan Longoria, 3B
Ben Zobrist, CF
Pat Burrell, DH
Willy Aybar, 1B
Gabe Kapler, RF
Dioner Navarro, C
Akinori Iwamura, 2B
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James Shields, RHP