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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: Hellickson’s turn at the stadium

Posted Aug 13, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Aug 13, 2011 at 03:01 PM

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ROGER MOONEY
ST. PETERSBURG Now it’s Jeremy Hellickson’s turn on the Yankee Stadium mound as he tries to help the Rays take another game of the Yankees lead in the Wild Card standings.

The Rays, after Friday’s 5-1 victory, are 7 ½ behind the Yankees. That’s the closest they’ve been New York since they were seven back on July 29.

Hellickson, who has had his starts pushed back in an effort to control the amount of innings he throws this season, starts on five days rest for the first time in like forever.

“I threw my bullpen on Day 2 for probably the first time in a month, so that was a little weird,” Hellickson said. “Usually it’s been on my start day when I throw it.”

Hellickson (10-7) has held opposing batters to a .208 average – the fifth-lowest in the American League.

He is 6-3 with a 3.38 ERA this season in 11 road starts.

His 8.24 runs of support per nine innings is the highest in the majors.

Earlier this season the question concerning Hellickson was how would be able to handle himself pitching with so much rest? Now, it is how well he fare pitching on four days rest?

“Like anything else, he’s going to have to get used to being on that routine, there’s no question,” manager Joe Maddon said. “That possibly could be a factor, but we’re going to find out.”

Here are the lineups”

RAYS
Jennings LF
Damon DH
Longoria 3B
Zobrist 2B
Kotchman 1B
Upton CF
Joyce RF
Rodriguez 2B
Chirinos C
—
Hellickson 10-7, 3.05

YANKEES
Gardner LF
Jeter SS
Granderson CF
Teixeira 1B
Cano 2B
Swishe3r RF
Chavez 3B
Posada DH
Martin C
—
Hughes 2-4, 7.11