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• The Yankees finished the regular season in 2nd place, 7 games behind the 1st place Rays.

• The Yankees made the playoffs as the 5th seed in the AL but lost to the Rays in the 5th game of the best-of-five American League Division Series, finishing with a 4-3 postseason record.
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Yankee Stadium



• The construction of Yankee Stadium was very expensive, costing $1.6 billion, but it was such an innovative infrastructure that it won Project of the Year from McGraw Hill Publications in 2009.
• The new stadium opened in 2009 and that was the same year the Yankees won their first World Series since 2000.
• Yankee Stadium is able to seat approximately 52,000 fans, and Monument Park is one of the more popular locations that the stadium has to offer fans. Monument Park is an open-air museum that contains a collection of plaques, monuments, and retired numbers of distinguished Yankee players.