Roger Mooney covers the 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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Posted Mar 8, 2010 by Roger Mooney
Updated Mar 8, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Good morning from sunny Port Charlotte.
Going to go out on a limb and say this will be the best day of the spring in terms of weather.
The Pirates are bringing a splitsquad to Charlotte Sports Park to take on the streaking Rays, winners of four straight.
Desmond Jennings will make his first ever start with the varsity.
Here are the lineups:
Pirates
SS Ronny Cedeno
3B Andy LaRoche
LF Lastings Milledge
RF Ryan Church
1B Jeff Clement
CF Jose Tabata
DH Pedro Alvarez
C Erik Kratz
2B Ramon Vazquez 2B
RHP Brad Lincoln
Rays
SS Jason Bartlett
LF Carl Crawford
3B Evan Longoria
2B Ben Zobrist
DH Pat Burrell
CF B.J. Upton
C Kelly Shoppach
RF Desmond Jennings
1B Chris Richard
RHP Matt Garza
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