BOSTON —  Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins’ wife Lexie traveled through Texas snow (yes, snow!) in the middle of the night as part of her journey to Fenway Park to see Hunter’s MLB debut Sunday.

Dobbins, a top Boston pitching prospect, started for the Red Sox on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball against the Cardinals.

Dobbins was initially scheduled to start Sunday for Triple-A Worcester in Jacksonville, Fla. But the Red Sox needed another pitcher for Sunday after Saturday’s game got rained out and moved to Sunday for a day-night doubleheader.

Lexie was the first person Hunter called after WooSox manager Chad Tracy told him the news Saturday evening.

Lexie attends nursing school at Lubbock Christian University. She was in the middle of a clinical at the hospital when Dobbins called.

“I saw his name pop up on my phone and I was like, ‘Something’s happening here’ because he knew I couldn’t answer my phone but I did,” Lexie said.

She excused herself momentarily to take Hunter’s call.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Lexie said. “I didn’t think it was going to happen yet.”

Neither did Hunter, who the Red Sox added to their 40-man roster last November to protect him from being eligible to other organizations in the Rule 5 Draft.

“I knew I’d get a shot this year if I just stuck to business as usual, did my thing. I didn’t know it was gonna be this quick,” Hunter said Sunday morning inside the Red Sox clubhouse.

Hunter traveled to Boston last night on JetBlue, a direct flight that landed around midnight.

Getting here wasn’t as easy for Lexie and Hunter’s other family members.

Lexie’s mother Kendra Riggs lives in Artesia, N.M. She drove three hours to Lubbock to meet up with Lexie. From there, they both drove overnight to Dallas to fly out of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

They arrived in Dallas around 4 a.m. They had booked a hotel room but the hotel actually gave their room away. So they changed in the hotel bathroom, then headed to the airport at 5 a.m. for their 7:05 a.m. flight.

It snowed on their drive out of Lubbock, which is about five hours from Dallas.

“It was like 89 (degrees) the day before,” Lexie said, laughing. “And the week before it was like a sandstorm.”

Hunter’s dad, Lance Dobbins, and his brother, Brody Dobbins, were at Brody’s baseball practice when Hunter called to tell them the news.

Hunter’s dad Lance said he looked down at his phone and thought it was “just an odd time” for his son to be calling.

Lance said he had a tough day Saturday. And so when he answered, Hunter asked him, “You want me to make your day better?’

“And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘I’m headed to Boston.‘”

Lance described hearing the news as “surreal.”

“I got emotional and so I handed the phone to (Brody),” Lance said. “(Hunter) said, ‘Tell dad don’t call mom. I’m calling mom.‘”

Devra Dobbins was about to head to Brody’s practice. She was actually texting Hunter videos of Brody’s game from the night before when he called.

Hunter often texts with his mom. She joked he typically calls for three reasons:

“Promoted, Mother’s Day or birthday,” Devra said, laughing. “Other than that, it’s text. So I was like, ‘Stop it!‘”

Hunter’s parents and brother live in Bryan, Texas, about two and a half hours from the Dallas airport.

Brody, a 16-year-old pitcher who already stands at 6-foot-5, said he didn’t even know how to reply to his brother.

“We’re nine years apart,” Brody said. “So when he was in high school, I was still young. When he was in college, we spent a lot of time together whenever we had time together. … He’s a huge role model.”

It’s not the family’s first time at Fenway Park. They were here last September when the organization presented Hunter with the 2024 Red Sox minor league Starting Pitcher of the Year award.

Lance is close friends with former Red Sox manager Grady Little. And so he and Devra visited Fenway Park 20-something years ago when Little managed here.

“Devra and I came out and spent a week. And we were laughing because we were sitting right there,” Lance said, pointing to the next section over while sitting in his seats before Hunter’s start Sunday.

“Grady’s younger brother Tommy was my summer league coach,” Lance added. “And Grady and I just hit it off. So I just looked up to Grady a lot. Asked a lot of questions. I bounced a lot of stuff off of Grady when I was in pro ball. He was always so matter of fact about things.”

Lance, who pitched in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and Indy Ball, said Tom Little, also an agent at Ballengee, recommended they hire Alex Wilson as Hunter’s agent.

Wilson, an agent at Ballengee Group, pitched for the Red Sox in 2013 and ‘14 before before being traded to the Tigers in the Rick Porcello deal.

“So that’s our other connection to the Red Sox is Alex Wilson playing here,” Lance said. “It’s a small world.”