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New York City FC plays the New England Revolution at the start of an MLS soccer game at Yankee Stadium in New York on Sunday, March 15, 2015. It was the first home game for New York City FC. (Peter Morgan | AP)

NEW YORK -- Boston Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino said Sunday the surface of Yankee Stadium's field was noticeably different and that it's clear it's being used for more than just baseball.

"Yeah," Victorino told New Jersey Advance Media after the Red Sox' 14-4 loss to the Yankees Sunday night. "You could tell, it was definitely bumpier."

Victorino said he noticed the bumps in field around the start of the Yankees-Red Sox series Friday. The 34-year-old said he soon mentioned his observation to somebody at the stadium and was told that professional soccer games had been played there recently.

"Then it made sense," said Victorino, who added that he didn't think the bumps had a major effect on play in the series.

The New York City Football Club -- a Major League Soccer expansion team owned by the Yankees and Manchester City, of the Premier League -- calls the stadium home and has played two games there this season, the latest on March 28. It will have played 17 games there by the end of its regular season Oct. 25.

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Yankee Stadium is slated to hold NYCFC games on Thursday and Sunday before the Yankees return from their current 10-game road trip to host the Mets April 24.

Despite Victorino's comments, two other Red Sox players -- center fielder Mookie Betts and Brock Holt, who played center Saturday and second base Sunday -- told NJAM they didn't notice anything odd about the field.

Whether soccer being played regularly for the first time at Yankee Stadium would have an affect on baseball games was a hot-button issue briefly during spring training.

First baseman Mark Teixeira told the New York Daily News in March that he believed "it's going to suck" sharing the same field with NYCFC. And center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury told the New York Post "I'm sure it's not going to help anything."

But, soon after, team president Randy Levine defended the decision to host soccer games there, telling ESPN New York that things would be just fine for baseball.

"Everything will be perfectly suitable for play by both teams, subject to no horrific events caused by Mother Nature," Levine said to ESPN. "If that happens, we'll deal with it. It was well thought out, and if we didn't think it could happen in a very, very good way, we wouldn't have done it. We recognize Yankee Stadium is the cathedral of baseball."

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