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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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Rays @ A’s: Same lineup, different day

Posted Aug 22, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 22, 2010 at 03:47 PM

The Rays are hoping to avoid a repeate of this scene: Dallas Braden hugging his grandmother after throwing a perfect game against the Rays in May here in Oakland.

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OAKLAND It’s Dallas Braden vs. Matt Garza: Mr. Perfect Game against Mr. No-No.

Just another game, Garza said.

We’ll see.

Joe Maddon is running out the same lineup for the second straight game. He wants as many right-handed bats against the left-handed Braden.

This is only the fourth time this year the Rays are using the same lineup on consecutive days. Maddon has never trotted out the same lineup three days in a row. He could Monday when the face another lefty, former Ray Scott Kazmir, when they get to Anaheim.

Here are the lineups:

RAYS
Upton cf
Bartlett SS
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Zobrist RF
Aybar DH
Rodriguez 2B
Shoppach C
—
Garza (12-7, 3.74)

A’s
Coco Crisp CF
Daric Barton 1B
Mark Ellis 2B
Jack Cust DH
Kevin Kouzmanoff 3B
Rajai Davis LF
Landon Powell C
Gabe Gross RF
Cliff Pennington SS
—
Dallas Braden (8-8, 3.44)