Xander Bogaerts got a taste of the major league early in the season. The 30-year-old Aruba, Netherlands international, scored an impressive win with his new San Diego Padres team for the second straight game. Bogaerts helped the Padres again on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies: 3-1.
At the end of last year, the shortstop traded the Boston Red Sox, with whom he won two World Series championships, to the club from San Diego. Bogaerts signed an 11-year contract with the Padres worth $280 million, equivalent to €266 million.
The San Diego Padres kicked off their freshman baseball season in America with four straight games against the Rockies from fellow international Euriksson Brovar and Hensley Meulens, the Dutch national team coach. The Rockies won their first two games, but Saturday the Padres prevailed 8-4, thanks in part to a win by the Bogaerts. On Sunday, he hit the ball again high and far over the stadium walls in San Diego, with a teammate on base. Last year, Bogaerts hit fifteen games with the Red Sox all season.
The Padres were quickly done with the Rockies on Sunday. The duel in their Petco Park lasted only two hours and three minutes.
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