Floyd gets day off

MAY 25, 2008

The Rays will go for a sweep of the Orioles today at the Trop - with the opportunity to go a franchise-best 10 games over .500 in the process.

There are a few lineup tweaks, with DH Cliff Floyd getting the day off, which is more about keeping him healthy than him snapping an 0-for-16 stretch with a hit Saturday..Eric Hinske will DH and Gabe Gross will play in RF.

Should be a good pitching matchup today, with James Shields for the Rays and Daniel Cabrera for the Orioles..

Here are the lineups:

Orioles:
Roberts, 2B
Mora, 3B
Markakis, RF
Huff, DH
Millar, 1B
Payton, LF
R. Hernandez, C
Jones, CF
Bynum, SS

Cabrera, P

Rays:
Iwamura, 2B
Crawford, LF
Upton, CF
Pena, 1B
Longoria, 3B
Hinske, DH
Navarro, C
Gross, RF
Bartlett, SS

Shields, P

-- JOE SMITH

joesmith@sptimes.com

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