(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Ozzie Albies and Xander Bogaerts both hit two basehits
Nederlands
   KISSIMMEE / FORT MYERS / PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida (USA) -
On Thursday (February 28), six Dutch players played in a Major League Spring Training-game.
They were Ozzie Albies, Ray-Patrick Didder (both Atlanta Braves), Xander Bogaerts (Boston Red Sox), Carter Kieboom, Spencer Kieboom (both Washington Nationals) and Jonathan Schoop (Minnesota Twins).
Albies and Bogaerts both collected two basehits.
Bogaerts and Kieboom batted in a run.
At Champion Stadium at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the Walt Disney World Resort in Kissimmee (Florida), Atlanta Braves hosted Detroit Tigers and lost 7-6.
Detroit rallied for five runs in the top of the first inning and led 7-2 halfway the ninth inning.
Atlanta then scored four runs, but ended up one run short.
Atlanta recorded eight basehits, including two by Ozzie Albies, who started as second baseman and batted 2-for-3.
Albies grounded out in the bottom of the first inning, then got his next at bat in the third inning.
In this inning, Pedro Florimon hit a 2-run homerun for Atlanta.
With one out, Albies singled, as did Freddie Freeman, but a double play followed.
In the sixth, Albies led off with another single.
With two outs, Ray-Patrick Didder was inserted as pinch-hitter.
He walked, but the Curaçao- and Aruban-born players were left behind.
In the top of the seventh, Albies was replaced, while Didder became the new designated hitter.
But he didn't get another at bat, as he was pinch-hit for himself in the eighth.
At jetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers (Florida), Boston Red Sox played at home against Washington Nationals and won 13-5.
Trailing 5-2, Boston rallied for eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Xander Bogaerts started as short stop for Boston and was 2-for-3, scored a run and batted in.
Bogaerts popped out to end the bottom of the first inning, but was more successful in the fourth.
With one out, Jackie Bradley, Jr. doubled and Bogaerts singled.
Both scored, as next batters Brock Holt and Blake Swihart also singled.
In the productive fifth inning, Bogaerts contributed with a runscoring double.
After reaching second base, Bogaerts was replaced by pinch-runner Bryce Brentz.
Carter Kieboom was the starting short stop for Washington and was 0-for-2, but batted in a run.
He flied out in the top of the second inning, but then connected for a sacrifice fly in the third at bat.
Kieboom flied out in the fifth, then was replaced in the bottom of the sixth.
In the bottom of the fourth, Spencer Kieboom entered the game as catcher for Washington.
In the sixth, he walked, but stranded on first base.
He was then replaced in the bottom of the seventh.
At Charlotte Sports Park in Port Charlotte (Florida), Minnesota Twins played at Tampa Bay Rays.
Jonathan Schoop was the starting second baseman for Minnesota and batted 0-for-2 with one walk.
With one out in the top of the first inning, Schoop walked, but the next two batters struckout.
With two outs in the third inning, Ehire Adrianza hit a triple, but this time, it was Schoop who struckout to end the at bat.
He then grounded out to end the top of the sixth.
In the bottom of the sixth, Austin Meadows led off for Tampa Bay with a double.
He then moved on a fielder's choice-grounder to Schoop, which didn't result in an out, but instead in runners at the corners.
Hereafter, Meadows stayed on third base when Nick Solak grounded into a double play with Schoop in the middle.
But after next batter Christian Arroyo walked, Meadows scored when Lucius Fox singled.
Schoop was replaced in the bottom of the seventh.
(February 28)
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Didder & Profar lone two Dutch players to play on Tuesday. (February 26)
Four Dutch players in one game; Czech makes Spring Training-debut. (February 25)
Basehits for Albies, Profar & Kieboom. (February 24)
Two more Dutch players in Spring Training; Kieboom HRs. (February 23)
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