Rays 5/16/16 starting lineup, hard hit rate report, etc

Rays 5/16/16 starting lineup

Guyer DH
Motter SS
Longoria 3B
Pearce 1B
Souza RF
Jennings LF
Casali C
Kiermaier CF
Beckham 2B
Smyly LHP

Noteworthiness

― Taylor Motter is making his first big-league start tonight at SS, and hitting second.

I have dreamt of today for my entire life, I could not be more thankful for this amazing opportunity! Thank you so much to my parents, girlfriend and friends who came today and to everyone for the texts, calls and messages. Your support means the world to me! And thank you most of all to @lomogram for this awesome suit! #raysup #dumbanddumber #lloydchristmas

A photo posted by Taylor Motter (@taylormotter) on May 15, 2016 at 2:31pm PDT

― Mark Simon (ESPN Stats Info) just released the hard-hit rate leader boards for the previous week. As it pertains to the Rays, Evan Longoria is ranked 12th on the hitters leader board (23.2%), and the the team ranked fourth in making hard contact (16.5%). The pitching staff, however, is ranked 27th in hard contact allowed (16.7%).

― You can read about tonight’s pitching matchup, and so much more, in our series preview.