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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. Pirates

Posted Mar 28, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Mar 28, 2010 at 10:56 AM

ROGER MOONEY
PORT CHARLOTTE The Rays are sporting light blue caps today for the first time this spring. Rain caps might be better, since there is a 40 percent chance of rain.

The Pirates are in town for the final Sunday game at Charlotte Sports Park.

Hank Blalock will debut at third base.

Dioner Navarro (bruised nerve in left shin) is getting four at-bats in a minor league game. Right fielder Matt Joyce (strained right elbow) and Willy Aybar (strained left hamstring) are expected to play minor league games as well.

Here are the lineups:

Pirates
Andrew McCutchen CF
Delwyn Young 2B
Garrett Jones RF
Ryan Doumit C
Bobby Crosby SS
Jeff Clement 1B
Brandon Moss LF
Ramon Vazquez 3B
Ross Ohlendorf RHP

Rays
Jason Bartlett SS
Carl Crawford CF
Ben Zobrist 2B
Carlos Pena 1B
Pat Burrell DH
Hank Blalock 3B
Gabe Kapler RF
Sean Rodriguez CF
Alvin Colina C
Matt Garza P