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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 @ Twins: No Pena but Upton’s back

Posted Jul 3, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Jul 3, 2010 at 03:31 PM

The statue of Twins Hall of Famer Rod Carew sits outside Target Field.

ROGER MOONEY
MINNEAPOLIS - Carlos Pena will not start today against the Twins but could be in the lineup should the Rays chase Twins lefty Francisco Liriano.

Pena’s who average is down to .196, is batting .167 against Liriano. Pena is batting .174 against lefties this season.

Ben Zobrist will make his third start at first base this season. A good sign? Perhaps. The Rays are 2-0 with Zobrist at first.

B.J. Upton returns to center field, confident his right quad is no longer an issue. He strained it Tuesday and feels missing the next three days helped him avoid a stay in the DL had he kept playing and made it worse.

Rays starter Wade Davis, 0-5 with a 6.00 ERA in five June starts, is hoping July is a little kinder.

Here are the lineups:

RAYS
Rodriguez 2B
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Aybar DH
Shoppach C
Upton CF
Zobrist 1B
Kapler RF
Bartlett SS
—
Davis (5-9, 4.68)

TWINS
Denard Span CF
Orlando Hudson 2B
Joe Mauer C
Justin Morneau 1B
Jason Kubel RF
Michael Cuddyer 3B
Jim Thome DH
Delmon Young LF
J.J. Hardy SS
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LHP Liriano (6-6, 3.47)