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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 @ Yankees ... Maddon: ‘we need to win this game tonight’

Posted Sep 21, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Sep 21, 2011 at 06:26 PM

ROGER MOONEY
NEW YORK The lost a game they couldn’t afford to lose this afternoon, not with CC Sabathia going to the Yankees tonight and Josh Beckett pitching for the Red Sox in Boston.

The Rays will try to bounce back from this afternoon’s 4-2 loss with Jeremy Hellickson on the mound and Ben Zobrist back in the lineup.

“We win this game tonight and (the afternoon loss) is not that awful,” manager Joe Maddon said. “But we pretty much are in a position where we need to win this game tonight.”

Here are the lineups:

RAYS
Jennings LF
Upton CF
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Damon DH
Rodriguez SS
Kotchman 1B
Guyer RF
Shoppach C
—
Hellickson (13-10, 2.91)

YANKEES
Gardner LF
Granderson CF
Teixeira 1B
Cano 2B
Montero DH
Chavez 3B
Martin C
Dickerson RF
Nunez SS
—
Sabathia (19-8, 3.01)