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The Nationals and Tampa Bay Rays play their third game in a row tonight, but this time at Nationals Park. The Nationals hope to build off of their 16-4 pasting of the Rays on Tuesday at Tropicana Field to finish the road trip 4-4. Tonight is the first of eight-straight games at home for the Nats.
The Nationals have granted Triple-A RHP Mitch Lively his unconditional release. He will join the Hokkaido Nippon-ham Fighters in Japan.
Denard Span gets the night off and Clint Robinson, fresh off a 4-for-5 night with a mammoth home run, gets the nod in the cleanup spot.
Here are tonight's starting lineups:
For the Rays
CF Kevin Kiermaier
1B Jake Elmore
3B Evan Longoria
LF David DeJesus
2B Logan Forsythe
RF Steven Souza, Jr.
SS Asdrubal Cabrera
C Curt Casali
RHP Steve Geltz
For the Nationals
3B Yunel Escobar
2B Anthony Rendon
RF Bryce Harper
LF Clint Robinson
1B Danny Espinosa
SS Ian Desmond
C Jose Lobaton
CF Michael A. Taylor
RHP Jordan Zimmermann
