The Tampa Bay Rays will look to make it two Spring Training wins in a row, heading to CoolToday Park in North Port for another matchup against the Atlanta Braves. Michael Wacha (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will get the start, taking on Drew Smyly (0-1, 11.25 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 1:05.
Rays Starting Lineup
Margot CF
Diaz 1B
Meadows DH
Brosseau 3B
Adames SS
Tsutsugo LF
Zunino C
Wendle 2B
Gomez RF
Braves Starting Lineup
Acuna RF
Albies 2B
Freeman 1B
Ozuna LF
d’Arnaud C
Swanson SS
Riley 3B
Pache CF
Smyly P
Rays Make Five More Cuts
Prior to Thursday’s game, the Rays reassigned five more players to minor-league camp:
RHP David Hess
1B/OF Dalton kelly
INF/OF Miles Mastrobuoni
C Joseph Odom
C/OF Brett Sullivan
The moves reduce the team’s big league camp roster to 33 players.
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.
