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Ellis will start at third base and bat eighth in Thursday's game against the Padres.

Ellis will go from being optioned to Triple-A Reno one week earlier to entering the starting nine for Arizona's season opener in the wake of Josh Rojas sustaining an oblique injury that will keep him on the shelf to begin the campaign. Ellis looks as though he may get a look as a full-time third baseman while Rojas is out. The righty-hitting Ellis is in the lineup versus a right-handed starter Yu Darvish, even though the switch-hitting Sergio Alcantara would represent a viable platoon partner.

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