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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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Pena homers again

Posted Jun 12, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Jun 12, 2010 at 07:50 PM

ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG—Carlos Pena homered in the bottom of the first to set the franchise record for consecutive games with a home run at six.

He tied Jose Canseco during Friday’s loss.

Pena is also the first player to hit home runs in six consecutive games since Frank Thomas in 2006.

The major league record for homers in consecutive games is eight, set by Dale Long in 1956 and tied by Don Mattingly (1987) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1993).

Crawford homered with one out to tie the score at 1-1 and Pena put the Rays ahead one out later.

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We’re underway at the Trop.

East Lake High product Chris Coghlan tripled to start the game. That’s five hits in seven plate appearances during the first 10 innings of this series. He’s hotter than a June bug in July. Or something like that.

The Rays have to win to avoid dropping into a tie for first place with the Yankees, who beat up on the Astros again.

Anyway, here are the lineups:

MARLINS
Chris Coghlan LF
Gaby Sanchez 1B
Hanley Ramirez SS
Jorge Cantu DH
Dan Uggla 2B
Cody Ross CF
Mike Stanton RF
Wes Helms 3B
Ronny Paulino C
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Ricky Nolasco RHP

Rays
Jaso C
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Zobrist RF
Upton CF
Blalock DH
Rodriguez 2B
Brignac SS
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Garza P