At Goodyear, Cincinnati Reds played at home against Texas Rangers and won 6-3.
Cincinnati scored twice in the first, third and sixth inning.
Jurickson Profar played the entire game as short stop for Texas and was 0-for-4.
Chadwick Tromp entered the game as catcher for Cincinnati and was 0-for-1.
In the top of the first inning, Delino DeShields led off for Texas with a single and then Shin-Soo Choo walked.
But hereafter, Profar grounded into a double play.
In the fourth inning, Profar led off and then lined out to leftfield.
In the sixth, Profar flied out to rightfield, ending the at bat.
In the top of the eighth, Texas narrowed the deficit to 6-3 when Luis Marte hit a 2-run homerun.
The inning ended when a ball hit by Profar was caught again, this time a pop-fly to the catcher, who at that moment was Chadwick Tromp.
Tromp had entered the game in the top of the seventh, replacing starting catcher Tucker Barnhart.
Tromp got his lone at bat in the bottom of the eighth, when his grounder ended the inning.
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