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Rays to skip Niemann’s turn


ARLINGTON, Texas—The Rays have decided to skip Jeff Niemann’s turn in the rotation, meaning Matt Garza will get the start here Sunday.

The Toronto series that begins Tuesday will go Shields-Kazmir-Price, with Niemann available out of the bullpen in the meantime.

Updating: Niemann will return to the rotation next Saturday, with Shields getting the final start before the break.

Here are tonight’s lineups, while we’re at it:

Rays
Upton CF
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Zobrist 2B
Burrell DH
Gross RF
Bartlett SS
Navarro C
Kazmir P

Rangers
Kinsler 2B
Young 3B
Byrd CF
Jones LF
Blalock DH
Cruz RF
Saltalamacchia C
Davis 1B
Andrus SS
Hunter P

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