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In front of 5,311 excited fans, the New York Yankees won yesterday's exhibition 11-0 over Virginia Tech at English Field.
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Scheduled last May by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner as an outreach after the April 16 shootings, the two teams took the field after a moment of silence and the release of 32 giant balloons in memory of the victims.
"It doesn't matter if there was any connection between the Yankees and Virginia Tech prior to the event," said Yankees President Randy Levine. "We all had to rally around these brave people and the relationship grows from there. It was the human factor."
Yankees' left fielder Johnny Damon led the game off with a four pitch walk, and the first pitch from Tech pitcher Andrew Wells was high and inside on Damon and elicited a round of "oohhs" from the crowd.
"It definitely wasn't my intention at all, going into it I just wanted to throw strikes and get ahead. Little bit of emotion, little bit of nerves, jitters, things of that nature. I just let it go and that's where it ended up," Wells said. "In the end I'm kind of glad it did, because I got Damon's batting gloves out of it, got a couple handshakes, had a nice talk with him."
"It was probably about 8 or 9 inches from my face. It was a little tough to see because the background was the clouds and everything," Damon said.
Yankees' shortstop and captain Derek Jeter followed with a shot off the glove of first baseman Sean O'Brien, putting runners on first and second with no outs. After a walk to Bobby Abreu loaded the bases, Alex Rodriguez lofted a sacrifice fly to right that put the Yankees on the board 1-0.
Wells then got Jason Giambi to ground into a double play to thwart the potential Yankee rally. The Hokies rotated pitchers each inning, and Wells yielded one run off two walks, an error, and no hits in his lone inning on the mound.
"I told the guys I felt like I had thrown two complete games and I had thrown 20 pitches to five hitters," Wells said. "I was just going into it trying to prepare and being caught up in the moment, I was so physically and emotionally drained after one inning it was such a great relief.
In the bottom of the first inning, Tech catcher Anthony Sosnoskie got the first hit of the game for the Hokies, stroking a two out single to left centerfield off Yankees' starter Jeff Karstens.
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