Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon
Johnny David Damonis an American professional baseball outfielder who began playing in Major League Baseballin 1995. He last played in 2012, though he has not officially retired. In his MLB career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Raysand Cleveland Indians. Damon also played for the Thailand national baseball team and was a member of the squad for the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifiers...
close win
We're going to get better. We need to know how to win those close games.
fortunate players scoreboard yankees
We're fortunate that the Yankees lost. Everyone is scoreboard watching, the players and the fans.
best extended game great leaving randy ready stretch wish
Worst-case scenario, we would have been only one game up leaving here. Three?s all right. We wish we could have extended it, but Randy pitched a great game, as did Wake. That?s the best Randy?s been all year. He?s getting ready for the stretch drive.
fooling game guys hurt playing whether
So many times, you see guys getting hurt whether they're just fooling around or not playing very hard. For me, I have to keep up with the routine, play like every game may be my last.
facing guys team tough
It's tough facing guys you've never faced, that your team has never faced.
falls guys hitting scoring
Just not hitting with guys in scoring position. It falls to our hitters.
awesome best dugout fans games great guy knows saw
The guy knows how to play; everyone in our dugout knows how to play. There's going to be a lot of great games here and the best fans in the world pretty much saw an awesome display.
cheers fans heard meant
I heard a lot more cheers than jeers. Regardless, I wanted to do it because these fans meant so much to me.
arm ball concerned feels pain threw throw
There was no pain whatsoever. I loosened up and threw the ball fine. I'm going to go at it the way I have to. If I have to make the throw I'll do it. I'm not too concerned about it. My arm feels good.
breaks maybe ought send
He breaks a lot of my at-bats. Maybe I ought to send him a bill.
weird win written
It was a weird night. We could have been written off. Now we've got to go out and win some ballgames. Preferably three.
ace reason
He's our ace now. He's the reason Pedro and Derek Lowe aren't here.
crazy everybody exhibition game march spring
It's just an exhibition game in spring training. I think by now everybody understands what happened. I'm not going to go crazy over one game in March when we play them 19 times during the year.
captain hitting since waiting win
I just know I've been waiting for this ever since I signed. To win like that, with the Captain hitting a homer. It's something I'll take with me forever.