Boston Red Sox v Texas Rangers – Spring Training Box Score – Saturday,March 3, 2001

Saturday, March 3, 2001
Texas 7, Boston 1
 TEXAS           AB  R  H BI  BOSTON          AB  R  H BI
 R GREER LF       3  1  1  0  OFFERMAN 2B      3  0  0  0
 PENA 1B          2  1  1  0  LANSING 2B       1  0  0  0
 I RODRIGUEZ C    3  1  0  0  JOHN VALENTIN 3B 2  1  1  1
 DRANSFELDT SS    2  1  2  2  STYNES 3B        2  0  0  0
 A RODRIGUEZ SS   2  1  2  0  DAUBACH 1B       2  0  1  0
 HUBBARD C        2  0  0  0  HATTEBERG 1B     2  0  2  0
 R PALMEIRO 1B    3  1  1  3  M RAMIREZ RF     2  0  0  0
 WRIGHT LF        1  0  0  0  T NIXON RF       2  0  0  0
 LEDEE RF         3  0  1  0  EVERETT CF       2  0  0  0
 PORTER CF        1  0  0  0  D LEWIS CF       2  0  1  0
 CURTIS CF        3  0  0  0  BICHETTE DH      3  0  0  0
 SHELDON 3B       1  0  0  0  BURKHART PH      1  0  0  0
 CATALANOTTO 2B   3  1  3  1  OLEARY LF        2  0  1  0
 M YOUNG 2B       1  0  0  0  STENSON LF       2  0  0  0
 LAMB 3B          3  0  1  0  VARITEK C        1  0  1  0
 MONROE RF        1  0  0  0  G WILLIAMS C     2  0  0  0
 SIERRA DH        3  0  1  0  C GREBECK SS     2  0  0  0
 HAFNER DH        1  0  0  0  MERLONI SS       1  0  1  0
 TOTALS          38  7 13  6  TOTALS          34  1  8  1

 TEXAS                   500 000 101-- 7
 BOSTON                  001 000 000-- 1

 E--JOHN VALENTIN. DP--TEXAS 1, BOSTON 2. LOB--TEXAS 5,
 BOSTON 7. 2B--DRANSFELDT. HR--R PALMEIRO (OFF CONE), JOHN
 VALENTIN (OFF JE ZIMMERMAN), DRANSFELDT (OFF LEE).

                                  IP   H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR
  TEXAS
 D DAVIS (W)                       2   2   0   0   1   2   0
 JE ZIMMERMAN                      2   1   1   1   0   2   1
 M MUNOZ                           2   3   0   0   0   1   0
 P MUNRO                           2   2   0   0   0   1   0
 SIKORSKI                          1   0   0   0   0   2   0

  BOSTON
 CONE (L)                          2   3   5   3   1   0   2
 WAKEFIELD                         2   4   0   0   0   2   0
 OHKA                              1   1   0   0   0   0   0
 K MERCKER                         1   2   0   0   0   0   0
 LEE                               1   1   1   1   0   0   1
 ERDOS                             1   0   0   0   0   0   0
 BR WILLIAMS                       1   2   1   1   0   2   0

 WP--CONE.
 SO--TEX: R GREER, R PALMEIRO, MONROE, HAFNER. BOS:
 OFFERMAN, DAUBACH, M RAMIREZ, T NIXON, EVERETT, BICHETTE,
 BURKHART, STENSON.
 BB--TEX: A RODRIGUEZ. BOS: VARITEK.
 T--2:38. A--7,412.

Partial play-by-play:

Texas 1st: Rusty Greer led off the game by singling to right-center field on a 2-0 pitch. Ivan Rodriguez hit a soft grounder to third. Valentin misplayed the ball and it went through his legs. Alex Rodriguez walked on six pitches. During the at-bat, a wild pitch allowed Greer to score. Rafael Palmeiro drove a first-pitch fastball 415 feet over the center field wall for a three-run home run. Chad Curtis grounded out to shortstop. Frank Catalanotto drove an 0-1 fastball down the right field line and over the fence for a solo home run.

Texas 2nd: Cone retires Rangers 1-2-3 and threw a total of 35 pitches, 23 for strikes. Valentin grabbed Ivan Rodriguez’s hard grounder down the line and threw him out.

Rangers 3rd: Alex Rodriguez lined a ground single to left field.

Red Sox 3rd: John Valentin homered off Jeff Zimmerman on the first pitch. Later in the inning, Alex Rodriguez caught Offerman’s grounder behind second base, spun around and threw him out.

Rangers 5th: Alex Rodriguez singled to left-center but was thrown out by Troy O’Leary trying to stretch it into a double.

Rangers 7th: Kelly Dransfeldt hit a solo home run off Sang-Hoon Lee.

Rangers 9th: Dransfeldt doubled in a run.

A record crowd of 7,412 witnessed the game at City of Palms Park. The previous attendance record of 7,385 was set on March 22, 2000 for a game between Cincinnati and the Boston.

Manny Ramirez is still looking for his first hit of the spring. He went 0-for-2 Saturday with a swinging strikeout in the first inning and a fly-out to center in the third.