Texas 6, Boston 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature:
51°
Umpires:
Home -
Jim Wolf, 1B -
Derryl Cousins, 2B -
Alan Porter, 3B -
Ron Kulpa
Attendance:
37967
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Rangers 6, Red Sox 3: Mike Napoli homered for the fourth time in three games and drove in four runs, and left-hander Derek Holland pitched seven sharp innings as visiting Texas won its sixth straight.
Holland (2-0) allowed two runs, four hits, walked three and struck out seven to improve to 3-1 lifetime against Boston.
Napoli had three hits and finished the two-game series sweep 6-for-9 with three homers, eight RBIs and four runs scored.
Josh Hamilton also had three hits to raise his average to .440 for the Rangers (10-2), who won for the fifth time in a row on the road.
Josh Beckett (1-2) gave up three runs, seven hits, walked one and struck out seven in seven innings.
The Red Sox took a 2-0 lead in the second when Kevin Youkilis drove a 2-2 pitch over the Green Monster for his first homer after David Ortiz led off the inning with a double.
Hamilton's infield hit in the third drove in Ian Kinsler before Napoli knocked a 2-0 offering into the Monster seats in the fourth with David Murphy aboard following a single.
Texas broke the game open with three runs in the eighth, the last two on Napoli's two-run double off the Monster.
Pinch hitter Ryan Sweeney had an RBI single in the ninth to make it 6-3 before pinch hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia lined into a double play with two on to end it.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Hamilton is 8-for-17 against Beckett. ... Youkilis was 0-for-6 against Holland prior to the homer. ... Boston's Darnell McDonald went 0-for-3 and is off to a 2-for-24 start. ... The Rangers have scored 52 runs in their last five games at Fenway Park with 13 homers. ... Texas heads to Detroit for a four-game series with the Tigers in a rematch of the 2011 American League Championship Series, won by the Rangers in six games.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Texas
|
10 |
1 |
14 |
.294 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
| Boston
|
5 |
1 |
10 |
.161 |
13 |
8 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
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