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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 swing back into action

Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Marc Lancaster

Updated Jul 18, 2008 at 06:06 PM

The Rays open the second half tonight against the Blue Jays, looking to bounce back from their seven-game slide that preceded the All-Star break.

As Joe Maddon noted earlier, if they win tonight, that doesn’t mean they’re going off on a tear, and if they lose it doesn’t mean the end of the world. I would expect the Rays to look a bit sharper than they did in Cleveland, though, if only because it would be difficult to go in the other direction.

Whatever happens, the Rays have everyone’s attention. To wit: the gift awaiting Evan Longoria when he arrived today. A congratulatory bottle of champagne sent by none other than Eva Longoria, complete with an apparently personally signed note. Very nice.

On the baseball front, the Rays have decided to hold Scott Kazmir off until Monday, so Edwin Jackson will get the ball Sunday. Erring on the side of caution, I suppose.

Here are tonight’s lineups:

Blue Jays
Inglett 2B
Scutaro SS
Rios CF
Stairs DH
Barajas C
Overbay 1B
Rolen 3B
Wilkerson RF
Lind LF
Burnett P

Rays
Iwamura 2B
Crawford LF
Upton CF
Pena 1B
Longoria 3B
Floyd DH
Navarro C
Hinske RF
Zobrist SS
Shields P