Spring Training Game Notes: Tampa Bay Rays vs Boston Red Sox

Rays vs Red Sox

Today, the Rays will take on the Red Sox at 1:05 in Fort Myers with Chris Archer set to get the start for Tampa Bay, while Joe Kelly will start for Boston. So far this spring, the Rays and Red Sox are both 1-1 after yesterday afternoon's contest.

Unfortunately, today's game will have no broadcast by either team.

Here are today's starting line-ups as well as some notable players expected to participate.

#Rays lineup v #RedSox: Mahtook RF, Kiermaier cf, Longoria 3b, Dickerson LF, Morrison DH, Loney 1b, Beckham 2b, Motter SS, Conger c, Archer

— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) March 4, 2016

#RedSox: Betts RF, Pedroia 2B, Bogaerts SS, Ortiz DH, Ramirez 1B, Sandoval 3B, Young LF, Swihart C, Bradley Jr. CF and Kelly RHP.

— Pete Abraham (@PeteAbe) March 4, 2016

From the Tampa Bay Times,

Pitchers: Rays — Chris Archer, Kyle McPherson, Jhan Marinez, Adam Wilk, Adam Reifer, Jacob Faria, Parker Markel; Red Sox — Joe Kelly, Steven Wright, Junichi Tazawa, Craig Kimbrel, William Cuevas, Roman Mendez

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Trivia Time!

The answer to yesterday's question was Johnny Gomes, answered by essenpee

This player enjoyed 13 years in the majors, with the season above being his 3rd highest fWAR

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There are 30 days until Opening Day!

That's the same number of runs knocked in by Sean Rodriguez during the 2014 season.

Three of those came via this walk-off home run

Go Rays!