D-backs, Dodgers play for Tucson shooting victims

Friday's spring training game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers at Tucson Electric Park will raise money for victims of the January mass shooting in Tucson.

BY TYLER BASSETT

Mar 24, 2011, 4:11 PM Updated: 4:13 pm

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Friday’s spring training game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers at Tucson Electric Park will raise money for victims of the January mass shooting in Tucson.

D-backs CEO Derrick Hall told FOX 10 that his team is happy to return to TEP, where it held spring training until this year when the D-backs moved to Scottsdale.

“Those are our fans, those are our people,” Hall said. “We are all Arizonans and, if we can help them in Tucson, still have a presence there, we’re glad to.”

Hall added, “We want a jam-packed house. The more money we can raise for these families and for the victims, the better it’s going to be.”

The father of 9-year-old Christina Greene — the youngest of six people killed in the shooting at a political rally — is a scout for the Dodgers.

The shooting happened in a supermarket parking lot where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting constituents. Giffords was among 13 people wounded.