Never forget. Jonathan Villar of the Astros gets a little too aggressive and winds up with a face full of fanny, sliding head-first into Brandon Phillips’ backside. (Photo courtesy of the New York Daily News)
Never forget. Jonathan Villar of the Astros gets a little too aggressive and winds up with a face full of fanny, sliding head-first into Brandon Phillips’ backside. (Photo courtesy of the New York Daily News)

Rays 6/19/14 Starting Lineup

Jennings CF
Zobrist 2B
Kiermaier RF
Longoria 3B
Loney 1B
Guyer LF
Joyce DH
Escobar SS
Hanigan C

Noteworthiness

  • Replacing one fractured player with another. The Rays placed David DeJesus on the 15-day DL with a left hand fracture. Brandon Guyer has been activated from the DL after recuperating from a fracture of his own. DeJesus was injured on a check swing in Wednesday’s game. Per Marc Topkin, DeJesus says he knew his hand was hurt, but didn’t expect it to be an avulsion fracture. He will be in a cast around three weeks.
  • “We didn’t deserve to win. The only guy really that deserved to win was (Alex) Cobb. He threw the ball well and gave us a chance, and we didn’t reward him by doing very routine things the right way. We’ve got to do those things or we’re not going to win, simple as that.” — Evan Longoria, on yesterday’s loss in the series finale against the Orioles.
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