The Marlins defeated the Houston Astros 12 – 8 in their inaugural Spring Training game.

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

In their inaugural game, on April 8, 1969, the Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 4 – 3 in 12 innings.

They played their inaugural game at the newly completed Target Field on April 12, 2010.

Despite inaugural game festivities at the new ballpark, the Dodgers would spoil the 2000 season opener, with a three HR performance by little-known Kevin Elster.

The inaugural WBC in 2006 followed the IBAF mercy rule, with an additional rule stopping a game after five innings when a team is ahead by at least 15 runs.

The format of the 1981 episodes as aired on CJOH was similar to that of the inaugural 1979 season, with the differences being that each show featured skits revolving around a certain topic ( something that carried over from Whatever Turns You On ) and that the disco dancers were replaced by video game competitions.

As a league, the 2010 average of 80. 35 points per game was the best ever, far surpassing the 69. 2 average in the league's inaugural season.

Following the inaugural game, tweaks and adjustments were made, and the first season continued.

While in the Atlantic League, the Surf won the first-ever Atlantic League championship in 1998 while also hosting the inaugural Atlantic League All-Star game.

The league announced a national television deal with sports channel The Score, while a crowd of 5, 100 took in the league's inaugural game in London, Ontario.

The Suns ' inaugural game in 1968 was against the Sonics.

With the Canucks ' roster set, the team played its inaugural game against the Los Angeles Kings on October 9, 1970.

Later the same year, on 21 August, the same opponents, now renamed Real Unión, were invited to play the inaugural game at San Mamés Stadium, and he scored the very first goal at the new ground.

The first mention of a football game played by the club is between Melbourne and South Yarra in July 1859, with Hammersley as inaugural captain.

Matthews was also an inaugural inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 to honour his contribution to the English game.

The inaugural game of the Legend of Zelda series, it was first released in Japan as a launch title for the Family Computer Disk System peripheral.

They capped off the league's inaugural season in 1997 with a win over the New York Liberty in the WNBA championship game to win the WNBA's first championship.

" As a one-off special, the first quiz show called " Uncle Bee " was telecast on WNBT inaugural broadcast day of 1941 followed later the same day by Ralph Edwards hosting the second game show broadcast on United States television, Truth or Consequences, as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory soap.

* 8 July – The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20 – 10 at Lang Park

Being in a major national market, the Sparks have always been a focal point of the league ; they faced New York in the league's inaugural game on June 21, 1997.

On May 24, 1935, the network aired its inaugural live event — the first-ever night baseball game, between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies.

On October 6, 1923, Pomona College and USC played in the inaugural game at the Los Angeles Coliseum, with the Trojans prevailing 23-7.

His leadership style established many forms and rituals of government that have been used since, such as using a cabinet system and delivering an inaugural address.

The inaugural meeting for Task Group 7 was held during January 2009, where it was chartered to write standards for free-space optical communication using visible light.

Later studies using samples of American ideologues and American presidential inaugural addresses attempted to apply this model.

On 22 June 1984, Virgin Atlantic operated its inaugural scheduled service between Gatwick and Newark using a leased Boeing 747-200 ( registration G-VIRG ), christened Maiden Voyager, formerly operated by Aerolíneas Argentinas.

Tampa Bay was the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat — the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.

On 17 June 1944, Qantas made its inaugural flight to Ceylon via Exmouth using a modified Liberator bomber, arriving in Perth on 3 June 1944 having been released to the airline by the British Government.

His 1967 article analyzes the inaugural speech of John F. Kennedy: " Considering the separation of church and state, how is a president justified in using the word ' God ' at all?

Despite construction delays keeping the Montclair State baseball team from using the new park ( they remained at Pittser Field for one additional season ; Pittser Field was then converted into a soccer only stadium ), it opened for business in time for the Jackals ' inaugural game in May 1998.

In 2003 he exhibited at the then new Chinese Arts centre in Manchester, and in 2004 he won the inaugural " Artes Mundi " prize in Wales for Where does the dust collect itself ?, an installation using dust he collected in New York on the day after the destruction of the World Trade Center .< ref >

Two of the most notable online records that are considered genuine are 241. 82 wpm on an English text on typingzone. com by Brazilian Guilherme Sandrini ( equivalent to 290. 184 wpm using the traditional definition for words per minute since this site defines a word as six characters rather than five ) and 256 wpm ( a record caught on video ) on TypeRacer by American Sean Wrona, the inaugural Ultimate Typing Championship winner, which is considered the highest ever legitimate score ever set on the site.

The inaugural flight between Buenos Aires and Miami took place between February 19 and 25, 1930, using eight different Commodores seaplanes and from then on they became regular.

Since that inaugural season the town has hosted a number of Texas League franchises, most of them using the " Missions " moniker.

It was initiated by NZ National Airways Corporation in 1947 using Short Sunderlands but after a survey, was taken over by TEAL in 1951 with the inaugural Auckland — Suva and Suva — Labasa flights in June.

" He participates in OneBeat as one of the 2012 inaugural OneBeat Fellows, 32 from 21 countries, with " a unique and powerful commitment to using music to inspire, engage, educate, and transform society.

The airline's inaugural flight was on 28 June 2005 from Lagos to London Heathrow using an Airbus A340-300 aircraft.

Jannus was also the first airline pilot, having pioneered the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using heavier-than-air aircraft.

Kiir positioned himself as a reformer, using his inaugural address to call for the South Sudanese people " to forgive, though we shall not forget " perceived injustices at the hands of the northern Sudanese over the preceding decades and announce a general amnesty for South Sudanese groups that had warred against the SPLM in the past.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

Subsequent productions include the Prince of Wales's Theatre's in 1872 and it was also the inaugural play at the new California Theatre in San Francisco in 1869.

As a result, Geelong finished second in the inaugural season, a good start to the new league.

The Mets ' inaugural season ( 1962 ) was played in the Polo Grounds, with original plans calling for the team to move to a new stadium in 1963.

The groom may be a mere detail: the new editor of Modern Bride began her inaugural column, without irony: " I really did have the wedding of my dreams, the wedding that had been floating around my head for years before I met my husband.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

The inaugural MSO along with a very large number of games, introduced two new events of their own creation the Pentamind and the Decamentathlon.

In the first season of the new United League in 2006, the Aces won the inaugural ULB championship before pulling off another repeat as they would win the title once again in 2007.

In the 1991 – 92 First Division campaign they finished mid-table in the league and were founder members of the new Premier League, finishing 5th, as top London club, in the 1992 – 93 inaugural season.

It was Walter who would convince Andrew Carnegie that New York needed a first-class concert hall and on May 5, 1891, both Walter and Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new Music Hall, which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie.

Branson is a Star Trek fan and named his new spaceship VSS Enterprise in honour of the famous Star Trek ships, and in 2006, reportedly offered actor William Shatner a ride on the inaugural space launch of Virgin Galactic.

The event also saw Melbourne unveil its proposed new logo, which incorporates a trident, the Southern Cross, as well as the inaugural rules of Australian rules football.

In 1983, a new production of Oliver was the first musical produced by Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre as part of its inaugural season as a self-producing theatre.

The sanctuary of the new building, now attached to the house originally on the property, was used for the inaugural Shabbat services of June 1 – 2.

The new ballpark, Franklin Quest Field, opened in 1994 with the renamed Salt Lake Buzz drawing 713, 224 fans to home games during their inaugural season-breaking the PCL single-season attendance record that had stood for 48 years.

In BBC Radio 6 Music's inaugural John Peel Lecture, Townshend urged Apple to use its power to help new bands instead of " bleeding " artists like a " digital vampire ".

The 2005 documentary film Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra ( Canada, 2005 ) recorded the first days of the TSO's inaugural season with Oundjian as its new music director.

The inaugural match at the new stadium was a 2 – 1 win over FC Barcelona in a friendly match.

The UFC also made the last WEC Featherweight and Bantamweight Champions, José Aldo and Dominick Cruz respectively, the inaugural UFC Champions of their new weight divisions.

** World Rally Championship for Manufacturers – Won by Alpine Renault ( 1973 is the inaugural season for the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile's new World Rally Championship series )

The Sol folded after the league's inaugural season, and two new teams joined for 2010, bringing WPS to eight teams.