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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’ Longoria making progress

Posted Sep 25, 2010 by Tribune Sports

Updated Sep 25, 2010 at 06:24 PM

By TONY FABRIZIO

ST. PETERSBURG The news on third baseman Evan Longoria’s strained quad is encouraging. Longoria said he’s already doing better after a day off and doesn’t expect more than a few more games.

Sean Rodriguez played third base in the Rays’ 5-3 victory against the Mariners last night, and Dan Johnson will get the start there tonight in the middle game of the series.

The Rays entered today with a half-game lead over the Yankees in the AL East and a magic number of three for clinching a playoff berth. The Yankees and Red Sox are playing an afternoon game, and Boston was leading 6-0 in the seventh inning.

Here are tonight’s lineups:

MARINERS

Ichiro Suzuki, RF
Chone Figgns, 2B
Jose Lopes, 3B
Franklin Gutierrez, CF
Casey Kochman, 1B
Adam Moore, C
Matt Mangini, DH
Mike Carp, LF
Josh Wilson, SS
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Doug Fister, RHP (6-12, 3.83)

RAYS

John Jaso, C
Ben Zobrist, 2B
Carl Crawford, LF
Dan Johnson, 3B
Matt Joyce, RF
Carlos Pena, 1B
Brad Hawpe, DH
B.J. Upton, CF
Reid Brignac, SS
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Matt Garza, RHP (14-, 4.01)