The Rays will welcome the red-hot Seattle Mariners into the Trop, Friday, for a four-game wrap around series. Tampa Bay went 2-1 against the M's the last time they met. (Photo courtesy of Rays Colored Glasses)
The Rays will welcome the red-hot Seattle Mariners into the Trop, Friday, for a four-game wrap around series. Tampa Bay went 2-1 against the M’s the last time they met in May. (Photo courtesy of Rays Colored Glasses)

Rays 6/6/14 Starting Lineup

DeJesus DH
Zobrist 2B
Longoria 3B
Loney 1B
Jennings CF
Joyce LF
Escobar SS
Kiermaier RF
Molina C
Bedard LHP

Noteworthiness

  • LHP Erik Bedard will take the hill against Chris Young, who continues to make a bid for comeback players of the year. You can read about the match up, and more, in our series preview.
  • In case you missed it, Eno Sarris of Fangraphs wrote, “The Rays may be in a new position when it comes to this year’s trade deadline. Since their playoff odds have dropped more than any other team’s since the beginning of the season and are now close to 5%, it’s at least hard to see them as buyers. Then again, they haven’t made a ton of in-season acquisitions in their more competitive past, and their team is built for 2015 as much as it was built for this year — it’s likely that their transition from buyers to sellers may come without many big moves.”
Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan (center) threw out the first pitch at a recent Durham Bulls game. (Photo courtesy of Spin Magazine)
Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan (center) threw out the first pitch at a recent Durham Bulls game. (Photo courtesy of Spin Magazine)
  • This straight up rules! Mark Hogan of Spin Magazine writes,

Merge Records has taken its 25th-anniversary celebrations out to the ballgame. Last night was Merge Records Night for the venerable North Carolina indie label’s hometown minor-league baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays Triple-A affiliate Durham Bulls. Merge co-founder and Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan threw out the first pitch, Mount Moriah‘s Heather McEntire sang the national anthem, and the Bulls players’ walk-up music was a Merge-oriented playlist picked by the label. Check out the piece in its entirety at Spin.com.

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