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...
career course game seen
Derek is so talented, you know that over the course of a game, he's going to do something dramatic. I've seen it enough times in my career from the other side. He's very, very professional when the game is on the line.
david great stepped
David Wells stepped up and pitched a great game.
david needed
David pitched awesome. He was everything we needed him to be.
pitches top
That's pretty amazing. They weren't on the top of their game, but they made the pitches when it counted.
almost baseball both four news ready sides team time
That's old news now. I've had this new team for a long time, almost four months, so it doesn't matter. I think both sides are pretty over it. It's time to get ready for the baseball season.
definitely expect score
It's definitely very surprising. We expect to get hits. We expect to score a lot of runs.
bats definitely good guess help needed pitching staff swing
It's definitely very disappointing. I guess we just needed to swing the bats a little better and help out our pitching staff tonight. We had some good swings, and unfortunately we just couldn't do much more.
caught rest shows tense
It was a pretty tense game. Fortunately, we're 1-0 right now. They battled us. It shows you that the rest of the world has caught up to the U.S. in baseball.
across enjoyed forever group guys love room sure teams
It was a group of guys who enjoyed each other, a group of guys who would love to play forever with each other. You don't have those teams too often, ... I look across the room and I'm not sure if I'm going to play with these same guys for another year. I could be on another team. They could be on other teams.
belt best fastball felt knows looking missed pitch surprised
It was pretty much a fastball down the middle. I felt bad. I was looking for a pitch a little lower. I was looking for something down and he actually got it belt high. I was pretty surprised I missed it, but it wasn't the best of swings. Fortunately, now, I missed it, because if I had put it into play, who knows what would've happened.
expect
It's very surprising. We expect to get a lot of hits.
across close push win
It's weird, but we need to know how to win these close games. We need to know how to push across a run.
across close good learn pitcher push shows strike walk win zone
It's weird, because we need to learn how to win these close games. We need to learn how to push across runs. It just shows how good a pitcher can be when he's around the strike zone and doesn't walk anybody.
change happened happens players year
It's something that happens year in and year out in baseball; players change teams. This was a part of it. It happened -- I'm over it, so they've got to get over it.