lookoutlanding.com - 11/3/2009
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It was a very heads-up play. Not a lot of guys would've been paying attention to third base in that situation, but Damon was thinking the whole time, and earned himself a free 90 feet. There was no risk - he saw that the base was uncovered and knew he could outrun Feliz to the bag, so he ...
sportsuntapped.com - 11/2/2009
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sportsuntapped.com —
A day after the New York Yankees came
back to win Game 3, Johnny Damon became the...
difference-maker with a two-out, ninth-inning, game-saving performance...
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You Can’t Catch Johnny Damon
cantstopthebleeding.com - 11/2/2009
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cantstopthebleeding.com —
Willie Mays robbing Vic Wertz? Ho hum. Mazeroski’s
walk-off before they called such things a walk-off? Whatevah....
Carton Fisk’s game-winning shot down the leftfield line in 1975? Fuck off. All of the above pale in comparison to the not-so-idiotic Johnny Damon’s most ...
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Damon’s Double Steal – Greatest Play in W.S. ...
weretheteamtobeat.com - 11/2/2009
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weretheteamtobeat.com —
Well that sucked. That's been about my only
concrete thought for the past twelve hours since the...
game ended. The series isn't over and in baseball anything can happen, but I'm undeniably in a deep state of melancholy and depression today. It's not so much the fact that we're down 3-1, it's ...
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Life sucks at 3-1, now what?
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So, just how good was Damon’s steal?
The Hardball Times —
As I'm sure you all have heard, Johnny Damon took advantage of the shift to advance an extra base on a steal of second last night. While it was a very heads up and exciting play, it simply didn't have much of an impact on the game itself. As Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing notes: ...
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Who was on third for Phils? Nobody —
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The Phillies discussed the play that set in motion a killer 7-4 loss Sunday night to the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the World Series. Johnny Damon stole second base in the ninth and wisely ran to third with nobody covering third base.
