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The Yankees opened their new Yankee Stadium on April 3, 2009, when they hosted an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs. The new stadium hosted its first regular season game on April 16, when the team played against the Cleveland Indians [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and their first playoff game against the Minnesota Twins in the ALDS on October 7, 2009.
The number of home runs hit at the new stadium slowed significantly as the season progressed, [87] but a new single-season record for most home runs hit at a Yankee home ballpark was nonetheless set in the Yankees' 73rd home game of 2009 when Vladimir Guerrero of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim hit the 216th home run of the season at the ...
The all-time attendance record of 115,300 was set at a preseason game between the defending champions Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 29, 2008, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame , this is the only baseball game where the 100,000 figure has been definitively exceeded.
The first pitch of all three World Series games scheduled at Yankee Stadium — and, in fact, all seven games of the series — is set for 8:08 p.m. EST. Tickets are still available but come at a ...
Starting with the 2009 season, weeknight games began 40 minutes earlier as suggested by Commissioner Bud Selig. [2] The Yankees won the series four games to two, and went on to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 4–2 in the World Series.
A 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the club's first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988. DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES: Celebrate with this ...
The 2023 New York Yankees season has been an abject disappointment. That disappointment played out Monday in the form of a nearly empty Yankee Stadium. ... attendance figure was from the game's ...
The 2009 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 season.As the 105th [1] edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff contested between the Philadelphia Phillies, champions of the National League (NL) and defending World Series champions, and the New York Yankees, champions of the American League (AL).