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.
@RMooneyTrib
TBO_Rays
Send us your questions

Posted Sep 18, 2009 by Tribune Sports
Updated Sep 18, 2009 at 04:23 PM
ST. PETERSBURG—Coming off a nightmarish 2-9 road trip in which everything that could go wrong seemed to go wrong in triplicate, the Rays are back at Tropicana Field to begin their second-to-last homestand of the year.
They’ll send James Shields (9-11) to the mound in tonight’s opener against the Blue Jays to face Scott Richmond (6-9, 5.03).
Here is Tampa Bay’s lineup:
Jason Bartlett, SS
Carl Crawford, LF
Evan Longoria, 3B
Ben Zobrist, DH
Willy Aybar, 1B
Gregg Zaunn, C
Akinori Iwamura, 2B
Gabe Gross, RF
B.J. Upton, CF
—-
James Shields, RHP
(Requires free registration.)
ADVERTISEMENT
TBO.com - Tampa Bay Online ©2010 Media General Communications Holdings, LLC. A Media General company. Member Agreement | Privacy Statement | Work With Us
Reader Comments