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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: The return of Shields

Posted Sep 10, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Sep 10, 2010 at 06:28 PM

ROGER MOONEY
TORONTO—James Shields returns to Rogers Centre for the first time since allowing six home runs in one game to the Blue Jays, an event that landed him in the record books for trying a modern major league record.

Shields said he’s not concerned about that. He’s only concerned about keeping the Rays in the hunt for the division title.

The Yankees, who have a 2.5 game lead over the Rays, are in Texas. The Red Sox, 6.5 games behind the Rays in the Wild Card standings, are in Oakland.

The Rays, 2-4 on this road trip, are looking to take care of business this weekend and take some momentum into the Trop on Monday when they open a three-game series against the Yankees.

Here are the lineups:

RAYS
Upton CF
Bartlett SS
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Rodriguez 2B
Baldelli DH
Zobrist RF
Shoppach C
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Shields RHP (13-12, 4.92)

JAYS
Dewayne Wise RF
Yunel Escobar SS
Jose Bautista 3B
Vernon Wells CF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Aaron Hill 2B
Adam Lind DH
John Buck C
Travis Snider LF
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Bret Cecil LHP (12-7, 3.76)