July 26, 2005
How Often Do You See It?
Johnny Damon pulls the great defensive play to end the inning/leading off with the home run trick. He went deep to the wall in the bottom of the ninth to make a leaping catch and save extra bases. Then, he homered leading off the top of the 10th. And his legend grows.
Update: Trot Nixon also left the game early with an injury on a swing. He has a strained oblique muscle, and it's not clear how long he might be sidelined.
Update: Schilling gives up a run in the 10th, but a nice play by John Olerud ends the game and gives the Red Sox a 10-9 win. The Devil Rays express is temporarily derailed. The top four teams in the AL East all win, so the standings remain the same.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Those moments are the best...I remember being watching an Angels/Yankee game at the Stadium a few years back, and Erstad just totally laid himself out in left-center, robbing Bernie Williams of an RBI line-drive double and ending the inning (he actually received a polite ovation from Yankee fans for his unbelievable play, a sound as rare as raindrops in the desert). He the lead off the next with a dead-center home run.
