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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. Tigers, lineups and more

Posted Jul 28, 2010 by Tribune Sports

Updated Jul 28, 2010 at 07:01 PM

By TONY FABRIZIO

ST. PETERSBURG - The Rays will try to go up 3-0 tonight on the Tigers in their four-game series against the AL Central contenders.

They’ll send one of their most reliable pitchers, Jeff Niemann (8-2, 2.95 ERA) agains Eddie Bonine (4-0, 2.72), a reliever who is making a spot start because the Tigers played a doubleheader Sunday.

Bonine has made nine major league starts in his career but none this year. He has not gone longer than 3 1/3 innings in his last nine appearances.

In pre-game news, the Rays announced that fewer than 1,000 tickets remain for each of this weekend’s three games against the first-place Yankees at Tropicana Field.

Center fielder B.J. Upton is out of the lineup after rolling his left ankle in the first inning of Tuesday ngiht’s game, as expected. Manager Joe Maddon said Upton could return by Saturday or Sunday and may be available to pinch-hit before then.

Maddon met with Rays executive vice president Andrew Friedman before batting practice but said there’s nothing new brewing on the trade front. The Rays have indicated there’s a chance they’ll make a move by Saturday’s trade deadline.

Tigers manager Jim Leyland was on the field briefly duirng batting practice to do a TV interview, but he won’t be available for the game. He’s serving a one-game suspension for getting into it with the umpires Monday night.

Lastly, the Tigers have just acquried infielder Jhonny Peralta from the Indians for minor league pitcher Giovanni Soto. Peralta hit .246 with seven home runs and 43 RBIs in 91 games for the Indians, and he could arrive in time for tomorrow’s series finale.

Here are the lineups:

TIGERS

Will Rhymes, 2B
Johnny Damon, LF
Jeff Larish, DH
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Brennan Boesch, RF
Ryan Raburn, CF
Scott Sizemore, 3B
Alex Avila, C
Denny Worth, SS
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Eddie Bonine, RHP

RAYS

Ben Zobrist, CF
Carl Crawford, LF
Evan Longoria, 3B
Carlos Pena, 1B
Matt Joyce, RF
WIlly Aybar, DH
John Jaso, C
Reid Brignac, 2B
Jason Bartlett, SS
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Jeff Niemann, RHP