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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 vs A’s: Chance to make up ground on someone

Posted Aug 5, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 5, 2011 at 05:34 PM

ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG You can bet more than a few eyes will be on Boston this weekend, where the Yankees and Red Sox meet for a three-game series.

Both teams are tied atop the AL East, so the Rays can make up ground on someone providing, of course, they take care of business against the A’s, who visit the Trop this weekend.

The Rays begin the night 10 games back of both teams for both the division and Wild Card leads.

The Rays have won five of their last seven. The A’s have lost five of their last seven.

Jeff Niemann, 3-0 with a 1.06 ERA in five July starts, takes the mound tonight for the Rays. He’ll be opposed by righty Guillermo Moscoso, who is 1-1 with a 7.31 ERA in his last three starts.

The Rays dropped the first three last week against the A’s before rallying for a 10-8 win in the series finale. That was their first of the five wins during this recent stretch of winning baseball.

The Go-Go’s kickoff their “Ladies Gone Wild” tour tonight with a post-game concert.

Here are the lineups:

A’s
Weeks 2B
Crisp CF
Matsui DH
Willingham LF
DeJesus RF
Jackson 1B
Pennington SS
Suzuki C
Sizemore 3B
—
Moscoso (4-5, 3.41)

RAYS
Jennings LF
Damon DH
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Kotchman 1B
Upton CF
Joyce RF
Chirinos C
Rodriguez SS
—
Niemann (5-4, 3.51)