(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Jurickson Profar, Xander Bogaerts, Jonathan Schoop hit basehits
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    FORT MYERS / WEST PALM BEACH, Florida / SCOTTSDALE / TEMPE, Arizona (USA) -
On Thursday (March 7), five Dutch players played in a Major League Spring Training-game and three of them hit a basehit.
Jonathan Schoop (Minnesota Twins) and Xander Bogaerts (Boston Red Sox) faced each other and both hit a basehit.
Schoop also scored.
Jurickson Profar (Oakland Athletics) singled, scored a run and batted in a run.
Spencer Kieboom (Washington Nationals) and Andrelton Simmon (Los Angeles Angels) also played on Thurday.
At jetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers (Florida), Boston Red Sox played at home against Minnesota Twins and suffered a big 12-1 loss.
Minnesota outhit Boston 18-5.
Jonathan Schoop started at second base for the visiting Twins and was 1-for-3, with a walk and scored a run.
Schoop recorded his basehit with one out in the top of the first inning, but then stranded on first base.
In the third inning, Schoop led off with a walk and went on to score on a single by Ronald Torreyes.
He grounded out in the fourth and sixth inning.
Schoop was replaced in the bottom of the sixth.
Xander Bogaerts started at short stop for Boston and was 1-for-2.
He popped out in the first inning and then hit a double in the fourth inning with two outs, but was left behind.
Bogaerts left the game in the top of the sixth.
In this game, Dustin Pedroia played in his first game for Boston.
He started at second base and was the lead-off hitter.
He led off for Boston in the bottom of the first inning with a single and later scored the lone run for his team.
Pedroia was then replaced in the top of the third inning.
Last year, the veteran second baseman missed almost the entire season due to a knee-injury.
The 35-year old Pedroia played in only three games for Boston for whom he plays in the Major League since 2006.
In 2002, Pedroia participated with Team USA in the Haarlem Baseball Week.
Back then, in a game against Cuba, Pedroia was the short stop and was hit in his face by a hard bad-hop grounder.
Pedroia sustained six fractures underneath his eye.
At FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach (Florida), Washington Nationals played at home and won 6-4 against New York Mets.
In the top of the seventh inning, Spencer Kieboom became the new catcher for Washington.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Kieboom walked.
But the inning ended when he was picked off at first base by catcher Thomas Nido.
It was his lone at bat in this game.
At Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale (Arizona), San Francisco Giants hosted Oakland Athletics and lost 5-1.
Jurickson Pofar started at second base for Oakland, was 1-for-3, walked, scored a run and batted in a run.
In the top of the second inning, Profar walked with two outs and moved to third base on a ground-rule double by Ramon Laureano.
But the two stranded, as two pop-flies ended the at bat.
In the fourth, Marcus Semien led off with a double, followed by a pitching change.
New pitcher Carlos Navas faced Profar and he delivered a runscoring single that broke an 1-1 tie.
With two outs, Profar scored on a triple by Nick Hundley.
Profar grounded out in the fifth and popped out in the eighth.
He then was replaced in the bottom of the eighth.
At Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe (Arizona), Los Angeles Angels lost 6-2 at home against Los Angeles Dodgers.
Andrelton Simmons started at short stop for the Angels and was 0-for-2 with a walk.
Simmons grounded out to end the first, as well as the third inning.
He then walked off the sixth inning and was replaced by pinch-runner Jeremiah Jackson.
(March 7)
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