Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Boston 11, New York Yankees 2
BOSTON AB R H BI NY YANKEES AB R H BI
STYNES 3B 4 1 1 1 KNOBLAUCH LF 3 0 0 0
SAMUELS CF 2 0 0 1 COLEMAN LF 1 0 0 0
T NIXON CF 4 2 2 2 SORIANO 2B 3 1 1 1
CHEVALIER RF 2 0 0 0 V BROWN 2B 0 0 0 0
HATTEBERG DH 6 1 3 1 ONEILL DH 3 0 1 0
BURKHART 1B 6 1 1 0 G HILL PH 1 0 0 0
OLEARY LF 3 0 2 1 BE WILLIAMS CF 3 1 0 0
HILLENBRAND 3B 3 1 1 0 BELLINGER CF 1 0 0 0
VARITEK C 4 2 3 3 JUSTICE RF 2 0 1 0
C GREBECK 2B 5 0 3 0 R PEREZ RF 2 0 2 0
D PEREZ 2B 0 0 0 0 T MARTINEZ 1B 2 0 0 0
NEILL RF 3 1 0 0 OTTAVINIA LF 2 0 0 0
MERLONI SS 3 1 2 0 POSADA C 2 0 0 1
SANCHEZ SS 1 1 1 2 JIMENEZ SS 2 0 0 0
SOJO SS 3 0 0 0
MATOS C 0 0 0 0
BROSIUS 3B 3 0 0 0
C GARCIA 3B 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 46 11 19 11 TOTALS 33 2 5 2
BOSTON 210 200 150--11
NY YANKEES 011 000 000-- 2
E--BURKHART. LOB--BOSTON 12, NY YANKEES 5. 2B--HATTEBERG,
VARITEK, R PEREZ. 3B--STYNES, ONEILL. HR--T NIXON 2 (OFF
CLEMENS 2), SORIANO (OFF OHKA), VARITEK (OFF A HERNANDEZ),
SANCHEZ (OFF A HERNANDEZ).
IP H R ER BB SO HR
BOSTON
OHKA (W) 6 3 2 1 0 3 1
WAKEFIELD 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
SCHOUREK 1 0 0 0 1 2 0
K MERCKER 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
NY YANKEES
CLEMENS (L) 5 13 5 5 1 7 2
EINERTSON 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
A HERNANDEZ 1 2-3 5 6 6 2 2 2
T WILLIAMS 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 1 0
HBP--MERLONI BY A HERNANDEZ.
T--2:46. A--10,291.
Partial play-by-play (from Your Turn at the Providence Journal):
Boston 1st — Stynes out. Nixon hits a home run. Hatteberg on base. Burkhart ________. O’Leary singles to center, Hatteberg scores. Varitek walks. Grebeck __________. Neill out.
New York 1st — Knoblauch strikes out. Soriano flies out to left. O’Neill strikes out.
Boston 2nd — Merloni out. Stynes grounds out. Nixon hits a 2-0 fastball over the fence in right-center for a home run. __________. Hatteberg out.
New York 2nd — Williams safe on first baseman’s error. Justice singles past Burkhart at first base. Martinez grounds into force play first to shortstop(?), Justice out at second, Williams to third. Posada grounds out third to first, Williams scores. Jiminez grounds out third to first.
Boston 3rd — Burkhart strikes out. O’Leary singles. Varitek singles. Grebeck singles, O’Leary thrown out at home by Knoblauch. Neill strikes out.
New York 3rd — Brosuis out. Knoblauch out. Soriano homered. O’Neill struck out.
Boston 4th — Merloni singles. Stynes triples to left, Merloni scores. Nixon strikes out on a forkball. Hatteberg doubles, Stynes scores. Burkhart ________. O’Leary _______.
New York 4th — Williams out. Justice out. Martinez out.
Boston 5th — Grebeck and Merloni get hits, but are stranded when Stynes flies out.
New York 5th — Posada flies out to center. Sojo pops up to first. Brosius lines out to left.
Boston 6th — (Einertson p) Nixon flies out to center. Hatteberg strikes out. Burkhart grounds out second to first.
New York 6th (Scott Samuels cf, Chevalier rf) —
Boston 7th (A. Hernandez p) — Hillebrand strikes out swinging. Varitek doubles past second into outfield. Grebeck flies out to right. Neill walks. Merloni hit by a pitch (elbow), leaves game, replaced by Freddy Sanchez. Samuels safe on fielder’s choice, as Sojo tries to get the out at second, but Sanchez is safe, Varitek scores. Chevalier flies out to right.
New York 7th (Wakefield p) — Robert Perez lines a double down the left field line. Paul Ottavinia strikes out. Jiminez strikes out looking. Sojo grounds out third (Hillenbrand) to first.
Boston 8th — Hatteberg strikes out swinging. Burkhart singles to right. Hillenbrand singles down the left field line, Burkhart to second. Varitek hit a 2-2 pitch for a home run to right-center, three runs score. Grebeck flies out to deep left. Neill walks. Sanchez hit a home run down the left field line on a 0-1 pitch, two runs score. [Todd Williams new pitcher] Samuels strikes out.
New York 8th (Kenny Perez 2b, Schourek p) — Brosius pops out to second. Coleman strikes out. Soriano walks. Vic Brown in as pinch runner. Hill strikes out looking.
Boston 9th (Carlos Garcia 3b) — Chevalier flies out to right. Hatteberg singles to right. Burkhart pops out in foul territory to the catcher. Hillenbrand grounds out third to second.
New York 9th (Mercker p) — Bellinger grounds out shortstop to first. R Perez bloops a single to second, K Perez can’t come up with it. Ottavinia flies out to center/right. Jimenez flies out to right.
Clemens threw 103 pitches, 64 strikes.
A crowd of 10,291 watched the game at Legends Field.
The Red Sox swept the spring two-game series with the Yankees, beating New York, 8-7, on March 18.
Boston improved to 11-15 while the Yankees fell to 9-18-1, the worst exhibition mark in the majors.
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