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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018—SPLIT SQUAD vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: LH Vidal Nuño vs. RH Tyler Eppler at Baltimore Orioles: RH Yonny Chirinos vs. RH Mike Wright Jr. vs. Pittsburgh ¡ First Pitch: 1:05 p.m. | Location: Charlotte Sports Park, Charlotte County, Fla. | TV: None | Radio: MLB.com at Baltimore ¡ First Pitch: 1:05 p.m. | Location: Ed Smith Stadium, Sarasota, Fla. | TV: None | Radio: None Game Nos: 1 & 2 (0-0-0) | vs. AL: 0-0-0 | vs. NL: 0-0-0 | Home: 0-0-0 | Road: 0-0-0 Day 10 of Spring Training | 35 Days Until Opening Day—Thursday, March 29 vs. Boston Red Sox at Tropicana Field (4:00 p.m.) UPCOMING PROBABLES PLAY BALL!—Today is the Rays fi rst and STARTING LINEUP vs. PITTSBURGH Today vs. PIT second of 33 games on the Grapefruit No. Player Pos. Avg. HR RBI League schedule…they will play 14 games Pittsburgh Tampa Bay 2 Denard Span (L) LF -- 0 0 at Charlotte Sports Park, 18 games on the RH Tyler Eppler LH Vidal Nuño 5 Matt Duffy 3B -- 0 0 road and one game at Tropicana Field… RH Alex McRae RH Austin Pruitt 39 Kevin Kiermaier (L) CF -- 0 0 these are the fi rst and second of 195 games RH Casey Sadler RH Ryne Stanek the Rays are scheduled to play in 2018. 40 Wilson Ramos C -- 0 0 RH Tyler Jones LH Dan Runzler Ê This is the Rays 21st spring training 13 Brad Miller (L) 1B -- 0 0 RH John Stilson RH Diego Castillo and 10th in Charlotte County…over 11 Adeiny Hechavarria SS -- 0 0 RH Yeudy Garcia RH Colton Murray the past 10 years, the Rays have 0 Mallex Smith (L) RF -- 0 0 RH Damien Magnifi co RH Cody Hall captured three Grapefruit League 17 Jason Coats DH -- 0 0 RH Brett McKinney RH Edwin Fierro titles (2008, 2010, 2014) while win- 28 Daniel Robertson 2B -- 0 0 Today at BAL ning at least 15 games seven times— 38 Vidal Nuño LHP (0-0, 0.00 ERA) Tampa Bay Baltimore something they were unable to do RH Yonny Chirinos RH Mike Wright Jr. in all 10 springs as the Devil Rays STARTING LINEUP at BALTIMORE RH Andrew Kittredge RH Pedro Araujo (1998–2007). No. Player Pos. Avg. HR RBI RH Ryan Weber RH Jeff Ferrell 7 Micah Johnson (L) LF -- 0 0 LH Adam Kolarek LH Jason Gurka A TIP OF THE CAP—Prior to the Rays-Pi- 18 Joey Wendle (L) 2B -- 0 0 rates game at Charlotte Sports Park, a mo- RH Hunter Wood LH Donnie Hart 1 Willy Adames SS -- 0 0 ment of silence will be held at 12:55 for the RH Ian Gibaut LH Chris Lee 70 Jake Bauers (L) 1B -- 0 0 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas RH Forrest Snow LH Joely Rodriguez 14 Ryan Schimpf (L) 3B -- 0 0 LH Kyle Bird RH Jimmy Yacabonis High School shooting…the Rays will join the Pirates (at Charlotte Sports Park) and 74 Johnny Field CF -- 0 0 Tomorrow at BOS Orioles (in Sarasota) in wearing Marjory 71 Justin Williams (L) RF -- 0 0 Tampa Bay Boston Stoneman Douglas HS baseball caps for 76 Johnny Monell (L) DH -- 0 0 RH Jake Faria LH Roenis Elias both batting practice and the split-squad 31 Adam Moore C -- 0 0 RH Matt Andriese RH Brandon Workman games, to pay tribute to last week’s school 64 Yonny Chirinos RHP (0-0, 0.00 ERA) RH Dustin McGowan RH Heath Hembree shooting in Parkland, Fla. …the Rays caps LH Ryan Yarbrough RH Kyle Martin from the home game will be autographed and auctioned off to raise money for the Broward Education RH Chaz Roe LH Bobby Poyner Foundation…the auction will run at raysbaseball.com/auctions from Feb 27 at 8:30 a.m. until March 6 LH José Alvarado RH Ty Buttrey at 8 p.m. …Major League Baseball announced that all 30 clubs will wear the Stoneman Douglas caps at RH Evan Scribner some point this weekend. RH José Mujica Sunday at MIN CEREMONIAL FIRST PITCHES—Ceremonial fi rst pitches will be thrown today by four Charlotte Coun- Tampa Bay Minnesota ty Commissioners (Chris Constance, Joe Tiseo, Stephen R. Deutsch, Bill Truex)…then, ceremonial fi rst LH Blake Snell RH Kyle Gibson pitches will be thrown by servicemen and servicewomen representing fi ve military branches: Sergio LH Dan Jennings RH Myles Jaye Stephens (U.S. Army), Dorothy Carter (U.S. Navy), Kevin Mangles (U.S. Marines), Katie Scott (U.S. Air RH Chih-Wei Hu RH Zach Littell Force), Stephen R. Deutsch (U.S. Coast Guard). RH Jaime Schultz LH Lewis Thorpe LOOK UP—Today’s pregame ceremonies will feature a fl yover by the U.S. Coast Guard Airstation Clear- RH R.J. Alaniz RH Michael Kohn water…the Sikorsky MH-60 T Jayhawk is a multi-mission, twin-engine, medium-range helicopter oper- LH Jonny Venters LH Gabriel Moya ated by the U.S. Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, military readiness and marine LH Kyle Bird environmental protection missions…today’s H-60 is piloted by Lt. Rachel Post and Lt. Chelsea Kalil. RH Edwin Fierro RH Cody Hall PACE OF GAME—Major League Baseball announced this week changes for the upcoming season de- RH Colton Murray signed to improve the pace of play…these changes will be in effect for Grapefruit League games…rules were changed to limit the number of mound visits in a game and to reduce the time required for inning RAYS SPRING TRAINING HISTORY breaks and pitching changes…Commissioner Rob Manfred has decided to defer the implementation of a W L T Att. pitch timer and a between-batter timer in 2018 in order to provide players with an opportunity to speed 2018 0 0 0 -- up the game without the use of those timers. 2017 12 16 5 81,752 2016 12 13 2 68,566 ON THE AIRWAVES—Today’s game against the Pirates will be broadcast on MLB.com, with Dave Wills 2015 15 13 2 80,406 and Andy Freed on the call…fans can meet the broadcasters at the mobile WDAE 620 AM studio (third base side) at 12:30 p.m. …Dave and Andy are entering their 14th season together, the 3rd-longest tenured 2014 16 7 4 78,264 full-season radio broadcast duo in the majors behind Detroit and San Francisco. 2013 15 17 2 90,935 Ê Pitching coach Kyle Snyder and RH Chris Archer are guests on this weekend’s edition of the 2012 10 16 6 87,916 Countdown to Opening Day radio show, airing on WDAE 620 AM at 12:30 p.m. prior to both 2011 15 14 2 95,859 games this weekend. 2010 20 8 2 97,971 2009 15 16 1 103,255 ALL FOR THE KIDS—The 10th Annual BaseBALL Dinner & Auction benefi ting the Boys & Girls Clubs of 2008 18 8 2 54,960 Charlotte County will be held tomorrow at Charlotte Sports Park…to purchase tickets, fans should call 2007 10 19 2 79,044 (941) 235-2472…for the 10th consecutive year, the Rays will be featured at the event…expected this year 2006 13 16 1 70,756 2005 13 16 0 61,261 PRONUNCIATIONS—Willy Adames (ah-DAH-mes), R.J. Alaniz (ah-lah-NIECE), Matt Andriese (ann- 2004 11 8 0 43,916 DREESE), Christian Arroyo (ah-ROY-yoh), Anthony Banda (BAHN-da), Jake Bauers (BOW-ers), Xorge 2003 8 19 3 51,324 Carrillo (HOR-hay cah-REE-yo), Yonny Chirinos (chih-REE-nos), Nick Ciuffo (SHOO-fo), Alex Colomé 2002 10 16 1 49,043 (COLE-uh-may), C.J. Cron (krohn), Nate Eovaldi (ee-VAUL-dee), Jake Faria (fuh-REE-uh), Ian Gibaut 2001 12 15 1 57,081 (jih-BOH), Adeiny Hechavarria (etch-ah-vah-REE-yah), Chih-Wei Hu (CHEE-way HOO), Kevin Ki- 2000 14 17 0 67,089 ermaier (KEER-my-er), Adam Kolarek (koh-LAIR-ick), Johnny Monell (mo-NELL), José Mujica (moo- 1999 14 14 1 59,230 HEE-kah), Vidal Nuño (vee-DAHL NOON-yoh), Wilson Ramos (RAH-mos), Dan Runzler (RUHNZ-ler), 1998 12 18 0 66,781 Ryan Schimpf (shimf), Evan Scribner (SKRIB-ner), Nick Solak (SO-lack), Ryne Stanek (STAN-ik), Jesús Total 265 285 37 1,441,905 Sucre (heh-SOOS SUE-cray), Ryan Yarbrough (YAHR-bro) 2018 SPRING INNINGS PLAYED (“A” GAMES) are Rays Manager Kevin Cash, coaches Stan Boroski, Charlie Montoyo and Player C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF DH Chad Mottola, 1B/OF Jake Bauers, C Nick Ciuffo, RH Jake Faria, INF Daniel Adames Robertson, LH Blake Snell and INF Kean Wong, among others. Arroyo Bauers RAYS ON THE TUBE—Tonight at 8 p.m. is the premiere of FOX Sports Sun’s Boldt “Inside the Rays: Spring Training”…the episode will bring fans all the sight Carrillo Chester and sounds from camp, as well as the happenings off the field…among the Ciuffo footage is the annual Fan Fest at Tropicana Field, CF Kevin Kiermaier train- Coats ing with the University of Tampa baseball team and coaches Kyle Snyder Cron and Ozzie Timmons at for a free coaches clinic. Cronenworth Duffy VIDEO ON A SILVER PLATTER—A video feed of today’s home game will Field be available, featuring highlights and interviews…with questions, contact Haley Hechavarria Chris Tilley at 727-434-0497 or [email protected]…the Rays Hernández will provide a daily postgame video feed of all non-televised spring games, James which will include about two minutes of highlights plus two short inter- Johnson views…for day games, video should be uploaded by 5:15 p.m.