"If you had May 3 in your "The Day Evan Longoria Returns from the Disabled List" pool, you're looking pretty good.

Longoria is expected back that night when the Rays open a three-game series against the Blue Jays at the Trop.

The third baseman, who strained his left oblique April 2 and hasn't played since, will head to Double A Montgomery on Thursday to begin a rehab assignment aimed at getting him 15 at-bats over a five-game period.

"Everybody is worried, myself included, about fatigue and soreness, the lingering effects of those first couple of games as opposed to getting the at-bats," Longoria said this afternoon."