At Surprise Stadium in Surprise, the Texas Rangers hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers in a game that ended in a 3-3 tie after nine innings.
The Rangers took a 2-0 lead by scoring a run in the first and second inning, but the Dodgers came alongside in the fourth at bat.
The Rangers re-took the lead in the sixth.
However, in the top of the ninth, the Dodgers made it a 3-3 score.
As Minor League-player, outfielder Chris Garia was assigned to the Major League-squad of the Rangers on Friday as an additional player.
However, he didn't play, as did the other three Dutch pros in this game.
Jurickson Profar also didn't get into action today for the Rangers.
On the side of the Dodgers, catcher Shawn Zarraga and pitcher Kenley Jansen were not used today.
At Sloan Park in Mesa, Andrelton Simmons played in his first game for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Last November, the short stop was traded to the Californian club by the Atlanta Braves.
Today, the Angels visited the Chicago Cubs and were shutout 3-0.
The Cubs scored twice in the fourth inning and once in the sixth, but were outhit 6-5.
The game was watched by 15,446 spectators, which set a record for games played in the Cactus League, one of the two leagues during Spring Training.
The teams who play in Arizona play in the Cactus League, those playing in the Florida form the Grapefruit League.
Simmons batted in fifth place in the batting order and was the designated hitter for the Angels, hitting 0-for-3, but reached base once.
He didn't play defensively, due to arm soreness.
In the first inning, Yunel Escobar and Kole Calhoun began with singles for the Angels.
A flyout and strikeout followed, then Simmons grounded out, ending the inning.
Simmons then flied out in the fourth inning.
In the seventh, Simmons led off and reached on an error.
He advanced on a single by Roberto Baldoquin and reached third base when pinch-hitter Jeff Bandy grounded into a double play.
But he then was left behind when a strikeout ended the at bat.
In the top of the ninth inning, Simmons was replaced by a pinch-hitter.
At Florida Auto Exchange Stadium in Dunedin, the Baltimore Orioles visited the Toronto Blue Jays and lost 4-3.
Jonathan Schoop was the starting second baseman for the Orioles and went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Schoop flied out in the first inning.
With the O's trailing 1-0 in the fourth inning, Schoop led off, but popped out.
Next batter Mark Trumbo then homered to tie the score.
Toronto answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth.
In the fifth inning, Baltimore got a run back, thanks to Schoop.
Ryan Flaherty led off with a single, then Paul Janish walked.
With one out, Schoop delivered a runscoring single, but a double play-grounder then ended the at bat.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Schoop was replaced.
At Joker Marchant Stadium in Dunedin, the Detroit Tigers hosted the New York Yankees and won 3-0, scoring all runs in the third inning.
Didi Gregorius was the starting short stop for the Yankees and singled and walked.
Being the lead-off hitter, Gregorius was the first batter in the game and he then walked, but was left behind.
In the top of the third, Gregorius lined out to short stop José Iglesias.
In the bottom of the third, Detroit then scored its runs, thanks to a 3-run homerun by Miguel Cabrera.
In the top of the fifth inning, with one out, Gregorius delivered a double, but again stranded, as the next two batters struckout.
He then was replaced in the bottom of the sixth inning.
At Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater, the Atlanta Braves lost 12-11 at the Philadelphia Phillies.
Trailing 1-0, the Phillies rallied for seven runs in the second inning and led 9-2 after four innings.
Hereafter, Atlanta scored a run in the fourth and fifth inning, then narrowed the deficit to 9-7 in the top of the eighth inning by scoring four runs.
In the ninth, the Braves again scored four runs to take an 11-9 lead, but in the bottom of the at bat, the Phils answered with three runs to win the game after all, 12-11.
In this game, Ozzie Albies came into the game in the bottom of the fifth inning as the new short stop for the Braves.
He went 1-for-2 with a walk and batted in one run.
In his first at bat in the seventh inning, Albies hit a force play-grounder.
In the eighth, after the Braves had scored three runs, Albies singled to load the bases.
Hereafter, Mallex Smith walked to bring in the fourth run in the at bat, but three runners were left behind, as the next batter struckout.
In the top of the ninth, the Braves scored four runs with two outs.
With the bases loaded, the first run was scored when Matt Kennelly walked.
Hereafter, Albies also walked to bring in the tying run.
An error on a following grounder by Mallex Smith then led to two runs and gave the Braves an 11-9 lead.
The lead was shortlived.
In the bottom of the ninth, with two outs, J.P. Crawford and Brock Stassi singled, then Cedric Hunter followed with a walk-off, 3-run homerun.
Ozhaino Albies is playing professionally only since 2014.
After having played the entire 2014 season in Rookie League, he promoted to Single-A last season.
He then hit .310, scored 64 runs and batted in 37 for the Rome Braves.
During Spring Training last year, Albies also briefly was with the Major League-squad and played for the Braves.
At Jet Blue Park in Fort Myers, Boston Red Sox win 7-2 vs. Tampa Bay Rays.
The BoSox trailed 2-1 after five innings, but then scored three runs in both the sixth and seventh inning.
Xander Bogaerts was the starting short stop for the home playing Red Sox.
In the bottom of the first inning, with two outs, he was hit by a pitch and stranded on first base.
In the bottom of the third inning, Jackie Bradley, Jr. led off with a homerun to give Boston an 1-0 lead.
Hereafter, three grounders followed, including one by Bogaerts that ended the inning.
In the top of the sixth, Bogaerts was replaced as short stop.
At Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Calten Daal was used as a pinch-runner on Friday by Cincinnati Reds-Manager Bryan Price in its 4-3 home loss against the San Francisco Giants.
The Giants broke an 1-1 tie by scoring three runs in the top of the sixth inning.
The Reds then scored twice in the eighth.
In the bottom of the ninth, Chad Wallach led off for the Reds with a single and was then replaced by Daal as a pinch-runner.
Moments later, Daal was forced out on second base on a grounder by Juan Duran, which ended in a double play.
A following flyout then ended the game.
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Garia in Spring Training; Simmons makes debut for Angels
GOODYEAR / MESA / SURPRISE, Arizona / CLEARWATER / DUNEDIN / FORT MYERS / LAKELAND, Florida (USA) -
On Friday (March 4), Chris Garia was assigned to the Major League Spring Training-team of the Texas Rangers.
The 23-year old, Curaçao-born outfielder joined the team as an additional player for its home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In November last year, Garia made his debut in the Netherlands Kingdom Team, with whom he participated in the Premier12 in Taiwan.
With the addition of Garia, there are now 13 professional players from the Netherlands with Major League-teams during Spring Training, either on the 40-man roster, as a non-roster player or as an additional player.
