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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
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

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
Starting Pitchers
Texas   Boston
Derek Holland Player Josh Beckett
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 7.0
7 Strikeouts 7
4 Hits 7
2.57 ERA 3.86
Hitting
Texas   Boston
Mike Napoli Player Ryan Sweeney
3 Hits 1
4 RBI 1
1 HR 0
7 TB 1
.750 Avg 1.000
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