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PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Its starting to look easy for Brad Miller, and more recently for his Tampa Bay Rays teammates.Miller hit two of the Rays five home runs in a 15-1 win over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.Im just trying to get to the next (at-bat) and just keep my head down and try to hit as many as possible, said Miller, who has hit 10 of his career-high 24 home runs since the All-Star break.Evan Longoria had three hits and his 27th homer while tying Carl Crawford atop the Rays career list with his 1,235th game played.Nick Franklin and Corey Dickerson also homered, and the Rays won their third straight.That was fun to watch, especially to have me in the dugout while they just keep scoring and scoring and scoring, said winning pitcher Blake Snell.Franklin and catcher Luke Maile each had three hits and Maile drove in four runs for the Rays, who have scored 35 runs in three games, the most in club history over a three-game span.Millers first home run came in the fourth inning, driving in the eighth run off starter Edwin Jackson. Manager Kevin Cash said it might have been the most impressive home run weve seen at this ballpark this year.Miller added a two-run homer in the fifth.Snell (4-5) struck out eight in five innings, giving up one run, five hits and four walks. Alexei Ramirez, who had two hits for the Padres, drove in their only run with a bases-loaded walk.Jackson (3-3) gave up eight runs, nine hits and three walks in four innings.I take full responsibility, said Jackson, who had won his two preceding starts. I pretty much single-handily sucked the soul out of the team.Rays shortstop Matt Duffy left the game in the fourth inning with a sore left Achilles tendon. It was his fifth game since being activated from the disabled list with an injury to the same tendon. Duffy said the injury is not much of a concern.LONGOS LONGEVITYLongoria holds the franchise mark in a number of offensive categories including homers, RBI and extra-base hits.What hes doing is remarkable, Cash said. I dont think he could be a better face and ambassador for this organization.DECISION TIME NEARINGThe Rays plan to discuss Wednesday the next step for RHP Chase Whitley, one of two pitchers nearing a return from Tommy John surgery. Options for Whitley, who pitched six scoreless innings Tuesday night in a rehab assignment, include being reinstated from the disabled list in the coming week or continuing to build up innings in the minors. Alex Cobb is expected to complete his rehab assignment by the end of the month.TRAINERS ROOMPadres: RHP Tyson Ross (right shoulder inflammation) threw 31 pitches in a simulated game. The Padres plan is to get him back on the mound before the years out, manager Andy Green said . ... OF Jon Jay (fractured right forearm) is not ready to return, as determined by a CT scan. Jay has been on the disabled list since June 20.Rays: 2B Logan Forsythe was scratched from the lineup due to back spasms. ... RHP Kevin Jepsen said he was fine one day after taking a liner by Christian Betancourt off the fingers of his right hand in the ninth inning.UP NEXTPadres: LHP Christian Friedrich (4-8) makes his 17th start of the season Wednesday in the final game of a nine-game trip.Rays: RHP Chris Archer (6-16), who leads the majors in losses and the AL in strikeouts with 177, is attempting to avoid becoming the first 20-game loser since Detroits Mike Maroth lost 21 in 2003. Hydro Flask Wide Mouth Flex Cap . -- For the first time in two months, an opponent was standing up to Alabama. Hydro Flask 12 Oz Coffee . -- Charline Labonte couldnt have asked for a better homecoming. http://www.hydroflask32oz.com/10-oz-wine-tumbler.html . The Oilers come in having lost five in a row (0-4-1) and 16 of their last 20 games, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. Hydro Flask 40 Oz Straw Lid . -- Whether Jeremy Hill deserves a prominent role in LSUs offence this early in the season is a matter for debate. Hydro Flask Black Friday Sale 2018 . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. Ben Duckett was desperately unlucky to be squeezed out of the England ODI squad by the return of Eoin Morgan, Alex Hales and Joe Root, according to the coach, Trevor Bayliss.Duckett batted at No. 3 in Bangladesh and scored two half-centuries in three innings. But although Bayliss said he had shot up the pecking order the selectors eventually decided to stick with the squad that has served England well for the majority of the last 18 months. England have won nine of their 12 most recent ODIs.There was, according to Bayliss, never any doubt that Morgan would return as captain. Though the England management were disappointed that he and Hales elected not to go to Bangladesh due to their security fears, the ECB had specified months ago that those who skipped the tour would not be punished for doing so.Root, who was rested from the limited-overs section of the Bangladesh tour, is also back and set to reclaim his spot at No. 3, despite expecting the birth of his first child a few days before England return to India in January. The combination of those factors meant no room for Duckett.There was a lot of discussion around Duckett, Bayliss said. It was the toughest decision and the one we spoke about the most. He did well in Bangladesh and if we had left someone else out they would have been desperately unlucky as well. We thought that Duckett has done himself no harm. He has shot up the pecking order and he is right there or thereabouts.At this stage he is more suited to white-ball cricket and he showed he had what it takes in Bangladesh. There were a couple of innings there that were class. He has done well for himself but we thought we would show a bit of solidarity with the team we have had and done so well in last 12-18 months.James Vince, who scored 53 runs in three ODIs in Bangladesh, has also been dropped, as was Steven Finn, who was a member of the squad but did not play in Bangladesh. The selectors resisted the temptation to rest players, reasoning that the gap between tours - the players will have more than two weeks at home between the end of the India Test series and their departure for the limited-overs games - was adequate.Bayliss did hint, though, that Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes who have played a fair bit may be rotated in order to allow someone like Liam Dawson ... another opportunity.With Morgan, Hales and Root all but certain to return, Duckett was competing for inclusion in the squad with Jonny Bairstow and Sam Billings. In the end, though, the selectors decided Bairstow and Billings were better players of spin and wanted to offer more opportunities to those regular members of the squad.Billings and Bairstow at this stage are probably the two spare batters, Bayliss said. We think both are two of our better players of spin. Billings did well with the opportunity he had in Bangladesh and Bairstow has been batting well.ddddddddddddProbably over the last couple of years, due to strength of the team we have had, he has not had the opportunities he would have liked. He is a good player, we all know that, and we want to keep him involved.Hales has made four hundreds and ODI cricket suits him to a tee. He has that bit of extra time to get himself in and when he gets himself in we know the damage he can do from a batting point of view. He has been an integral part of the last couple of seasons in white-ball cricket. He has not given up hope of continuing in Test cricket either, but at the moment he is not there and extra focus is on one-day cricket. He has certainly been one of our better players in white ball cricket.I have not had the chance to speak to Duckett yet but my message to him will be Mate, well done, you have had a fantastic start and see this as the beginnings of a career. Keep going out and scoring runs because you are right there or thereabouts. This decision was more to do with the experience of the guys we have in the team who have been together for the last 18 months and done well.The Champions Trophy is one of the big tournaments in the world and we are playing at home. We want to be in as good a form as we possibly can, so we dont want to be chopping and changing the team leading into that tournament.Bayliss confirmed that Morgan had been involved in the selection of the squad and dismissed the suggestion that his authority as captain had been diminished by his decision to miss the Bangladesh trip.Morgan not returning as captain was not even discussed, Bayliss said. It was said earlier that there would not be any recriminations against them and they are straight back in. We have done pretty well over last 18 months and the team we have got has been reasonably stable and successful and there is no reason to change.I have not sensed that his authority has been eroded at all. There has been no comment about it. He gets on well with all of the guys in the team. He is very highly respected among everyone for the job he has done over the last two years. He captains the team very well. He is a very positive captain and that means a lot to the players in the team.Other notable inclusions were Dawson being named in both squads - he was last week called up to join the Test party - and Tymal Mills in the T20 squad. 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