After dropping three of four games to the Oakland Athletics to finish the first homestand of 2022, the Tampa Bay Rays will spend the next six days in Chicago, playing a series with each of the teams that call the Windy City home beginning with the White Sox. Drew Rasmussen (0-0, 4.50 ERA) will get the start, taking on Dylan Cease (1-0, 1.80 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 7:10.
Rays Starting Lineup
B. Lowe 2B
Franco SS
Arozarena LF
Choi 1B
Diaz 3B
J. Lowe RF
Margot DH
Kiermaier CF
Mejia C
White Sox Starting Lineup
Anderson SS
Robert CF
Abreu 1B
Grandal C
Jimenez LF
Sheets DH
Garcia 2B
Vaughn RF
Burger 3B
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.
