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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 @ BoSox: Can they make it three complete games?

Posted Aug 17, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 17, 2011 at 12:52 PM

ROGER MOONEY
BOSTON Spectacular day for baseball here at Fenway Park.

The Rays, with David Price on the hill, look to take two-out of three from the Red Sox. That would give the Rays a winning record on this rain-shortened five-game trip through New York and Boston.

The Rays starting pitchers say they feed off each other, so it will be interesting to see how Price handles himself after James Shields and Jeff Niemann each threw complete games in Tuesday’s split of a day/night doubleheader.

Price does not have a complete game this season.

Joe Maddon said before the game he hasn’t decided on who will pitch Sunday against the Mariners. It will be either Shields or Niemann. One will go Sunday, the other Monday. Monday’s starter faces Justin Verlander of the Tigers.

Reid Brignac was scheduled to start today, so Sean Rodriguez is not in the lineup because of a scheduled day off and not because of getting hit on the knee by a Jon Lester fastball during Tuesday’s afternoon game.

Here are the lineups

RAYS
Jennings LF
Damon DH
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Kotchman 1B
Upton CF
Joyce RF
Brignac SS
Shoppach C
—
Price 10-10, 3.76

RED SOX
Ellsbury CF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez DH
Youkilis 1B
Lowrie 3B
McDonald RF
Crawford LF
Saltalamacchia C
Aviles SS
—
Lackey 11-8, 6.13