New York Yankees finally moved to their $ 1bn new Yankee Stadium on Thursday - but Cleveland Indians spoiled the party with a 10-2 win. The Yankees had staged two exhibition games at the new Ballpark, but when played the first nine matches of the new Major League season on the road. The new location is across the street from the old Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. But the hope of a fairytale-like opening was ashamed when Grady Sizemore hit a Grand Slam off reliever Damaso Marte. Cleveland pitcher Cliff Lee, last year the American League Cy Young Award winner, took the profits for a crowd of 48,271. He gave up one run in six innings as Yankees catcher Jorge Posada smashed the first home run in the new stadium to tie the game at 1-1 in the fifth innings. Yankees starter CC Sabathia - who was the highest paid pitcher in MLB history when he as a free agent in December - matched by Lee concede one run in six innings, but the Indians blew the game open by scoring nine runs in the seventh including Sizemore's big explosion. "It's fun to say that I started the first game in the new Yankee Stadium and to win, that makes it much matter," Lee said. Yankees manager Joe Giradi added: "It is not what we had hoped, and not how you want to start a new stadium, but a game is not to determine the history of the stadium." The new stadium, which can be very lucrative for the Yankees than the old site, is the second most expensive sports stadium in the world - after Wembley Stadium, the home of English football. Demolition of the old stadium is now started and will eventually be replaced by parkland.
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