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Rays Look To Overcome Sale, Push Win Streak To 10

photo: Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Rays

The Tampa Bay Rays will look for a tenth consecutive win Wednesday when the Boston Red Sox return to Tropicana Field for the third game of this four-game series.  Drew Rasmussen (1-1, 3.64 ERA) will get the start, taking on Chris Sale (3-0, 2.35 ERA).  First pitch is scheduled for 7:10.

Rays Starting Lineup

Arozarena RF

Cruz DH

Franco SS

Diaz 1B

Margot CF

Zunino C

Luplow LF

Wendle 3B

Walls 2B

 

Red Sox Starting Lineup

Schwarber 1B

Renfroe RF

Devers 3B

Martinez DH

Verdugo LF

Vazquez C

Duran CF

Lopez 2B

Arauz SS

Rays Confident Walls Can Handle Second

Taylor Walls will make his first big-league start at second base tonight after playing at shortstop through his first 39 games with the Rays this year before he was optioned down on July 22, but both he and the coaching staff are confident that he will have no problems on the other side of the diamond.

“Ninth inning, game on the line, we want the ball hit to him,” manager Kevin Cash said.

Walls has spent time in Durham at second base, shortstop, and third base since being sent back down, and Cash said with how Wander Franco has progressed over the past month, the plan at present is to have Walls play second and third, and spell Franco at short when he needs a day off.

Written By

Steve Carney is the founder and publisher of St. Pete Nine. One of the people most associated with baseball coverage in Tampa Bay, he spent 13 seasons covering the Rays for flagship radio station WDAE, first as producer of Rays Radio broadcasts, then as beat reporter beginning in 2011. He likes new analytics and aged bourbon, and is the owner of one of the ugliest knuckleballs ever witnessed by baseball scouts.

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