The Boston Red Sox are 5-0 against the New York Yankees for the first time since 1985. Jason Bay hit a three-run homer in the first inning against Yankees starting pitcher Joba Chamberlain, and the Red Sox beat the Yankees 7-3 on Tuesday night for a two-game sweep in the first trip to the Yankees' new $1.5 billion ballpark.
"I think Jason Bay is the only guy that thought it was a nice night out there," Red Sox manager Terry Francona joked. Bay is from Trail, British Columbia and like most places in the middle to southern part of the province it rains a lot and everybody thinks all of Canada is cold. That was exactly the case as the Red Sox and Yankees battled it out in weather which was much more suited for winter sports as cold rain poured down in the latter innings of both games and made the mound slippery. However, Bay thought it was just perfect.
"I'd much rather take this," said Bay, "than 95 (35 C) and humidity, as weird as that may sound. This is a nice spring/summer day sometimes where I'm from, so, you know, I enjoy this."
Bay has been the Yankees worst nightmare this season much like the man he was traded for last season, Manny Ramirez, was for his tenure with the Red Sox. Bay has hit 10 for 18 (.556) with three homers and 10 RBIs against the Yankees this season.
The new Yankee Stadium has not been very nice to pitchers as there have been 38 home runs hit in the first 11 games, two shy of the record for the first 11 games at a big league park, which was set at Houston's Enron Field in 2000. The Yankees have reportedly talked to physicists and engineers to figure out why the new stadium is so much more hitter friendly than the old one and have been ridiculed by many media outlets on their lack of preparation in building the expensive facility.
As if that wasn't enough for the Yankees troubles they have had a tough time selling seats at the new Yankee Stadium because they are so expensive, and Tuesday night it showed. Despite an announced crowd of 46,810 many of the most expensive seats again were empty. Just 54 of the 98 first-row Legends Suite seats costing $2,500 were occupied in the first inning, and three of the first nine rows behind the plate were mostly vacant.
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