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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Rollins scratched


Another exhibition game, another day without Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins out of the lineup.

Two days after an exhibition with Florida State, neither Utley or Rollins made the trip to Tampa for the Grapefruit League opener against the New York Yankees. Utley has "general soreness."

Rollins, who was out of town the last two days while attending a Motown tribute at the White House, strolled into the clubhouse just before 9 a.m. this morning - less than an hour before the bus departed Clearwater.

Although he had Rollins in the lineup initially, Manuel changed his mind and removed his long time leadoff hitter's name this morning, citing that Rollins hadn't played in the last two days.

Here is the lineup:

1. Pete Orr, 2B
2. Ross Gload, DH
3. Raul Ibanez, LF
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
5. Ben Francisco, CF
6. Domonic Brown, RF
7. Jeff Larish, 3B
8. Brian Schneider, C
9. Wilson Valdez, SS

Cole Hamels is starting, opposite Bartolo Colon.


Yankees lineup:

1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Nick Swisher, RF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Jorge Posada, DH
7. Curtis Granderson, CF
8. Francisco Cervelli, C
9. Brett Gardner, LF

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