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yankees-toronto spring training game

The Yankees and Toronto played Wednesday night to a packed house in a great spring training 2011 baseball game. There was a standing room only crowd on a cool night in Tampa. This was my first time going to George M. Steinbrenner field and it was as beautiful as I had been told it was. It’s the largest spring training stadium in Florida. The stadium is across the street from Raymond James stadium where the Bucs play football. There is plenty of parking at the football stadium and I was surprised at how easy it is to get in out of .  The stadium holds a little over 11,000 fans which is a little larger than Atlanta’s complex at Disney World.

In the game Wednesday Toronto jumped to a 3-0 lead until the Yankees were able to score 4 in the 7th and 1 in the 8th for a 5-3 victory. Phil Hughes got the win for for New York. David Purcey was on the losing end for Toronto. Toronto actually outplayed the Yankess until the 7th. Alex Rodriguez had 2 hits for Yankees and Yunel Escobar had 2 hits for Toronto.

The Yankees are 10-14 in the Grapefruit League and Toronto has a record of 10-10. Detroit has the best spring training record at 18-10 and the Braves are second with a record of 15-9.