Exhibition Game Thread: Welcome to SunTrust Park

(@SunTrustPark)Twenty-one years ago, the Yankees closed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with a win in Game Five of the 1996 World Series. Tonight they have a chance to open brand new SunTrust Park with another win. Sure, the stakes are much lower, but beating the Braves is always fun. It warms my heart that the Yankees had more World Series wins at Turner Field (two) than the Braves (zero).

The dimensions make it seem SunTrust Park will be somewhat pitcher friendly, perhaps less so than Turner Field, but I guess we have to see how the ball carries first. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that, a few years ago when SunTrust Park was being built, the Braves were losing in the artist’s…