Aki's Diary: First week in the Majors
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On Sunday (April 1), we boarded our charter plane at the St. Petersburg airport heading for New York. I was very excited to be playing my first Major League game at Yankee Stadium. It was also my first trip to New York City. My father flew in from Japan and arrived Monday morning just before the game that afternoon. The Yankee Stadium crowd was crazy, but it made for a very exciting atmosphere. We played well and had a lead, but the Yankees came back and won it. I singled to left field in the sixth inning for my first hit and the ball was retrieved for me, but it was not as happy a day as I would have liked it to be, because we lost.
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