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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 v Tigers: No Upton and no Andy Freed on the radio

Posted Aug 24, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 24, 2011 at 05:29 PM

ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG B.J. Upton is not in tonight’s lineup. The center fielder said he has yet to attempt a throw with his right arm, the shoulder of which he strained Monday night.

Upton said he will throw before Thursday afternoon’s game and hopes to return to the lineup when the team opens a four-game series Friday in Toronto.

Radio broadcaster Andy Freed will not work tonight’s game due to an illness. It is the first game Freed has missed this season. Orestes Destrade will join Dave Willis in the both.

Wade Davis will try to snap the Rays two-game losing streak, but the pitching hasn’t been the problem during the team’s losses to the Tigers during the first two games of this four-game series.

It’s the hitting, or lack of it. Or, more specifically, the lack of timely hitting. The Rays stranded 12 runners and were 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position during their 2-1 loss Tuesday.

The Rays begin the day 8 ½ back of the Yankees and Red Sox who are both tied for the division and Wild Card lead. The Rays have 35 games left in the regular season.

Not only are they trying to catch one of those two teams, time is also their enemy.

Here are the lineups:

TIGERS
Jackson CF
Boesch RF
Young LF
Cabrera 1B
Martinez DH
Avila C
Peralta SS
Betemit 3B
Santiago 2B
—
Scherzer RHP (13-7, 4.23)

RAYS
Jennings CF
Damon DH
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Joyce RF
Kotchman 1B
Fuld LF
Jaso C
Brignac SS
—
Davis (8-7, 4.43)