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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 @ Jays: A four-game sweep?

Posted Aug 29, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 29, 2011 at 03:44 PM

ROGER MOONEY
TORONTO A win tonight and the Rays complete their second four-game sweep this month and only the 10th in the club history.

They will have to go through Blue Jays lefty Rickey Romero, whose 1.66 ERA this month is tops in the American League.

The Rays are a season-high 14 games above .500 and begin the night 6 ½ games in back of the Wild Card-leading Yankees. This is the closest the Rays have been to the Wild Card leader at the start of play since July 24.

The Rays have won three straight and nine of their last 12. Since July 28, they are an AL-best 20-9.

Wade Davis has pitched well this month, but has received four straight no-decisions. The Rays have won all four, though.

Here is the Rays lineup:
Jennings LF
Damon DH
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Kotchman 1B
Upton CF
Joyce RF
Jaso C
Rodriguez SS
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Davis P