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.
� 1997-20243 by Allan Wood.