Friday, March 16, 2001
Boston 8, Pittsburgh 6
BOSTON AB R H BI PITTSBURGH AB R H BI
D LEWIS RF 4 0 0 0 E BROWN CF 4 1 1 0
D LOWE P 0 0 0 0 DE BELL RF 3 0 1 0
K MERCKER P 0 0 0 0 C HERMANSEN CF 2 0 0 0
HENDERSON P 0 0 0 0 KENDALL C 1 1 1 0
STYNES 3B 2 1 1 1 C WILSON C 1 1 1 0
BURKHART 1B 2 1 1 2 GILES LF 3 0 0 0
HATTEBERG C 4 0 1 0 WEHNER LF 2 0 1 1
W VERAS 3B 1 1 1 0 AR RAMIREZ 3B 3 1 2 0
EVERETT CF 4 1 1 1 GOMEZ 3B 1 1 0 0
SAMUELS CF 1 0 0 0 K YOUNG 1B 3 0 1 1
DAUBACH 1B 3 0 1 0 JEFFERSON 1B 2 0 0 1
NEILL LF 2 1 2 0 MEARES 2B 2 0 0 1
BICHETTE LF 3 0 0 0 W MORRIS 2B 1 0 1 1
MILLER P 0 0 0 0 J WILSON SS 4 0 0 0
BECK P 0 0 0 0 ARROYO P 2 0 0 0
G WILLIAMS C 1 1 0 0 J MANZANILLO P 0 0 0 0
C GREBECK 2B 3 0 2 2 T HOWARD PH 1 0 0 0
LANSING SS 5 1 1 1 SPARKS P 0 0 0 0
OHKA P 2 0 0 0 WENGERT P 0 0 0 0
ARROJO P 0 0 0 0 PLANTENBERG P 0 0 0 0
HILLENBRAND LF 2 1 2 1 E WILSON PH 1 1 1 1
TOTALS 39 8 13 8 TOTALS 36 6 10 6
BOSTON 002 100 221-- 8
PITTSBURGH 000 200 022-- 6
E--J WILSON, LANSING. DP--BOSTON 1, PITTSBURGH 1.
LOB--BOSTON 9, PITTSBURGH 9. 2B--NEILL, C WILSON.
HR--STYNES (OFF ARROYO), EVERETT (OFF ARROYO), LANSING
(OFF ARROYO), BURKHART (OFF J MANZANILLO), E WILSON (OFF K
MERCKER). SB--AR RAMIREZ, E BROWN. CS--DE BELL.
SF--MEARES.
IP H R ER BB SO HR
BOSTON
OHKA (W) 4 4 2 2 0 5 0
ARROJO 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
MILLER 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
BECK 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
D LOWE 1 2 2 0 1 0 0
K MERCKER 1-3 3 2 2 1 1 1
HENDERSON (S) 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0
PITTSBURGH
ARROYO (L) 5 5 3 3 1 6 3
J MANZANILLO 2 2 2 2 1 0 1
SPARKS 1 3 2 2 1 0 0
WENGERT 2-3 3 1 1 0 0 0
PLANTENBERG 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 0
WP--SPARKS. PB--KENDALL, G WILLIAMS. HBP--KENDALL BY OHKA,
KENDALL BY ARROJO, D LEWIS BY SPARKS.
T--3:05. A--6,075.
Partial play-by-play:
Pirates 2nd — Aramis Ramirez led off with a single, but Ohka avoided any rally with a pair of fly balls and a strikeout.
Red Sox 3rd — Chris Stynes hit 2-2 pitch on a line over the left field wall for a solo home run. One out later, Carl Everett hit a towering 400-foot homer into the parking lot beyond the right field wall.
Pirates 3rd — Ohka retired the Pirates in order.
Red Sox 4th — With two outs, Mike Lansing belted a 2-1 pitch onto the roof of the local Boys and Girls Club, a home run estimated at 400 feet. It was the third Boston home run allowed by Bronson Arroyo.
Pirates 4th — Jason Kendall was hit on the left arm by Ohka to lead off the inning. Brian Giles struck out. Aramis Ramirez singled past first base into right field, Kendall went to third. Kevin Young singled, Kendal scored. Pat Meares flew out to Bichette, playing his first game of the spring in left. Bichette threw the ball up the third base line, Ramirez scored. Ohka ended the inning with a strikeout.
Red Sox 7th — Morgan Burkhart hit Boston’s final homer off Josias Manzanillo, a two-run shot to straightaway center field.
Red Sox 8th — Craig Grebeck drove in Mike Neill with a single to right. Hillenbrand’s two-out single to left scored George Williams.
Pirates 8th — Craig Wilson reached base when Scott Samuels missed a diving catch in right-center. Later in the inning, Wilson scored on Reggie Jefferson’s groundout to first. Warren Morris followed with a bloop single scoring Leo Gomez.
Red Sox 9th — Grebeck singled to right, driving in Wilton Veras from third.
Pirates 9th — Pinch-hitter Enrique Wilson, leading off, hit a solo home run to deep left field off Kent Mercker. John Wehner’s single to left-center scored Emil Brown, pulling Pittsburgh within two at 8-6. With one out, Mercker was relieved by right-hander Rodney Henderson, making his first appearance in a Sox game this spring. Henderson retired Leo Gomez on a popup to first, and then got Jefferson to popup to Grebeck at second to end the game.
Notes:
Ohka has been working on his curveball and trying to throw more first-pitch strikes. He threw first-pitch strikes to the first three batters and four of the first five. Of the nine batters he faced with men on base, Ohka only threw ball one three times. He rated his first start of the spring as “so-so” and was upset that he struck out twice at the plate. Ohka threw 60 pitches, 43 for strikes.
This was the fifth successive game the Pirates’ injury-depleted staff allowed 10 or more hits.
There was a strong wind blowing out to dead center at McKechnie Field.
Henderson spent part of last season with Long Island of the Independent League.
The sell-out crowd of 6,075 was the fourth-largest paid attendance in the history of McKechnie Field. The facility, which first opened in 1923, was rebuilt and expanded in 1994 at a cost of $5 million.
The Red Sox are now 5-12 in Grapefruit League play while Pittsburgh fell to 8-9.
� 1997-20243 by Allan Wood.