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BALTIMORE -- Former Ravens linebacker O.J. Brigance will take his personal fight against ALS to the baseball diamond on the 77th anniversary of Lou Gehrigs farewell speech at Yankee Stadium.Brigance has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Soon after Brigance was diagnosed in 2007, he and his wife, Chanda, launched a campaign to help other people with ALS.Gehrig died two years after declaring himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth in his 1939 speech. Brigance will honor the former Yankees first baseman by participating in the traditional first-pitch ceremony Monday night at the home of the Class A Aberdeen IronBirds.Lou Gehrigs words still echo loudly the courage, humility and tenacity that he displayed on the baseball field, as well as in his fight against ALS, Brigance said. His ability to stand unflappable in the face of his toughest opponent ever serves as an inspiration to me, and I am sure to many others in the ALS community. I, too, am one of the most blessed men on the earth.Brigance is the only player to win a Canadian Football League title and a Super Bowl for a team in the same city, Baltimore. He was a special-teams contributor for the Ravens in 2000, when the squad earned a wild-card berth in the playoffs and went on to beat the New York Giants to become NFL champions.He now serves in the front office for the Ravens. Brigance, who uses a wheelchair and a communication device that translates his thoughts, is an inspiring figure within the organization and to many battling ALS.The Brigance Brigade Foundation has raised millions of dollars toward providing encouragement and equipment to people living with ALS. Some of the money is also used to find a cure.The ALS community has come a long way since Lou Gehrigs speech at Yankee Stadium, Chanda Brigance said, but there is still so far to go. Dwight Clark Super Bowl Jersey . 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Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price will return to his old stomping grounds at Tropicana Field on Monday for the start of a four-game series between the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays.Price (11-8, 4.19 ERA) will open the series against Rays lefty Blake Snell (4-5, 3.06). Price is 2/3 with a 5.11 ERA against the team that drafted him first overall in the 2007 MLB Draft.The Rays will follow with right-handers Chris Archer, Matt Andriese and Jake Odorizzi while the Red Sox future rotation is a little less certain.After Price, Boston manager John Farrell said Clay Buchholz will get the start on Tuesday and then he will be followed by Rick Porcello and Drew Pomeranz.Originally it was thought that Steven Wright (shoulder) would return from the DL in time to start Tuesdays game but Farrell decided to push his start back to the weekend. 1/8Wright 3/8 came out of todays bullpen in good shape, Farrell said. Were likely to get another bullpen for on Tuesday for Steven and that would put him in line for the weekend series in Kansas City.Meanwhile the Rays (52-70) are coming off of taking two of three from the AL-West leading Texas Rangers and have one of the hottest pitching staffs in the majors right now. Archer is coming off of one of his best starts of the year and Odorizzi is 5-0 since the All-Star Break.Were very capable of winning, said Rays lefty Drew Smyly, who is 4-0 in his last six starts. Texas is a first-place team,, theyve been in first place all year.dddddddddddd Its just consistency.Rays manager Kevin Cash said that too many times this season the Rays followed short winning streak with longer losing slumps.It just seemed like for a while we would win two or three and then turn around and lose five or six in a row and we struggled with those comeback games, Cash said. But if you look at the Texas series and the way we started it and turned things around quickly to finish strong. Thats what I want to see from this team.The Red Sox should get some additional help in the outfield when they activated Chris Young from the disabled list before Mondays game. Young went down with a hamstring injury on June 23 and it looks like hell return to split time with Andrew Benintendi but Farrell would not confirm that.I dont want to say that it would be strictly a platoon when Chris comes back. I dont want to go there, Farrell said. But I do know that against lefties, we can give Jackie a breather, we can give Andrew a breather, we can rotate through and keep guys fresh as were getting down the stretch here. Getting Chris back to us gives us a proven major league bat. A quality bat off the bench if needed. So his return to us will be a net positive.Boston (69-54) split their weekend four-game set with the Tigers. ' ' '