In Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, the Boston Red Sox played at home vs. Baltimore Orioles and won 8-7.
Xander Bogaerts was the short stop and lead-off hitter for Boston and was 2-for-2.
He also scored once and batted in a run.
Jonathan Schoop didn't play for the Orioles.
The Orioles initially took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
The Red Sox got one run back in its first at bat when Bogaerts led off with a double and scored on a 2-out double by Hanley Ramirez.
Trailing 4-1, Boston scored its second run in the second inning.
With one out, Rusney Castillo delivered a runscoring double and advanced on wild pitch.
With two outs, Bogaerts walked, but he was then forced out on a grounder by Dustin Pedroia.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Red Sox narrowed the deficit to 4-3.
Chris Young led off with a walk, then moved on a single by Castillo and scored on an one-out single by Bogaerts.
Hereafter, Bogaerts was replaced by pinch-runner Marco Hernandez.
Boston came alongside in the fifth, then took a 6-4 lead in the sixth.
Baltimore got one run back in the seventh, but Boston then took more distance in the eighth, scoring twice, making it 8-5.
In the ninth, Baltimore came back to 8-7, but that was to be it.
At Tradition Field in Port St.Lucie, the New York Mets hosted the Atlanta Braves and won 7-5.
The Mets led 6-0 after five innings, then the Braves rallied for four runs.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, Ozzie Albies became the new second baseman for the Braves.
In the top of the seventh, Emilio Bonifacio led off for the Braves with a single, then Albies also singled to bring him to third base.
Bonifacio then scored on a sacrifice fly by Hector Olivera that narrowed the deficit to 6-5.
Albies stranded and the Mets added an insurance run moments later.
In top of the ninth, Albies grounded out to become the final out of the game.
At Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater, the Philadelphia Phillies rallied for six runs in the sixth inning in a home game against the New York Yankees.
The Yankees, who led 1-0 in the third, scored twice in the seventh and eighth inning, but lost 6-5.
Didi Gregorius was the starting short stop and lead-off hitter for the Yankees today.
He was 0-for-2 with a walk.
Gregorius grounded out in the first inning.
In the fourth, with two runners on base, pitcher Charlie Morton struckout the next two batters, one of them Gregorius.
Starlin Castro followed with a runscoring single to give the Yankees a lead, but that was shortlived.
In the fifth, with a runner on third base and two outs, Gregorius walked, but this time, Castro flied out.
Gregorius was replaced in the bottom of the sixth inning.
At Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, the Washington Nationals won 5-2 at the St. Louis Cardinals.
Spencer Kieboom was the starting designated hitter for the Nationals and was 0-for-2.
In the second inning, he enabled two runners to move closer to home plate.
With runners on first and second base and one out, Kieboom reached on an error, which loaded the bases.
Moments later, the first two runners scored on a single by Michael Taylor and force play-grounder by Trea Turner to give the Nats a 2-0 lead.
After two runs were added in the third inning, Washington had runners on first and third base with one out.
This time, Kieboom struckout, as did next batter Taylor.
Kieboom was replaced by a pinch-hitter in the sixth inning.
At Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Andrelton Simmons was 0-for-2 as the starting short stop for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in a 6-1 home loss vs. Kansas City Royals.
After C.J. Cron led off for the Angels with a double in the second inning, Simmons grounded out.
That moved Cron to third base, who then scored the lone run on a sacrifice fly by Carlos Perez.
Simmons also grounded out in the fourth inning, then was one of the nine players that was replaced when the seventh inning began.
At Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, the Cincinnati Reds hosted the Colorado Rockies and lost 9-3.
Calten Daal started as short stop for the Reds and was 0-for-2.
In the third inning, Daal led off for the Reds, but struckout.
In the fifth, he grounded out, then was replaced in the top of the sixth, as were all other position-players.
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Xander Bogaerts collects two hits for Boston
CLEARWATER / JUPITER / PORT ST. LUCIE / SARASOTA, Florida / GOODYEAR / TEMPE, Arizona (USA) -
On Sunday (March 6), six Dutch professionals got into action during Spring Training-games.
Xander Bogaerts contributed with two basehits in an 8-7 victory of the Boston Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles.
