Johnson hits two homers for Yankees
Last Updated: 6:59 PM, March 9, 2010
Posted: 4:34 PM, March 9, 2010
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TAMPA -- Nick Johnson’s back looked completely healed today when the Yankees’ DH homered twice against the Pirates at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
Johnson, who was scratched from a game on March 4 because of lower back stiffness and didn’t play until Monday, hit two homers off Pirates starter Charlie Morton in a 12-7 Yankees loss.
“It feels pretty good,’’ Johnson said of the back he tries to keep warm between at-bats in his first stab at being a DH. “I have to make sure the back is loosened up.’’
Like a lot of Yankees hitters, Johnson has fallen in love with the instruction from hitting coach Kevin Long, whom Johnson visited in Arizona after signing a one-year, $5.75 million deal in December.
“I have been working in the cage on my lower half,’’ left-handed hitting Johnson said. “I have been working with Kevin not to drift and be more direct. I am turning my back foot. If I don’t do that I slide. It allows the ball to come to me and I don’t go get it.’’
Johnson got two at-bats because he will travel to Lakeland, Fla., to face the Tigers and Johnny Damon, the popular player he essentially replaced.
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Comments (44)
Post Your CommentDerek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 6:00 PM
being an envious bitter hate filled jackazz didn't stop me last year
nutJoba
03/10/2010 5:35 PM
POST OF THE DAY:
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:19 PM
Boy son, I guess I did snap hard yesterday! Everytime I get a beatdown like I did yesterday, I come back the next day with more yankee envious login names. I give son?
BWAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA YANKEE FANS HAVE MADE ME SNAP! HELP MOMMY HELP!
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Upon reading this pathetic cry for help blo-Joba wrote:
blo-joba
03/10/2010 1:47 PM
"he got owned again. This is a typical trick for him...it lasts a day or two and then he gives up.
Goes to show he is defeated."
SO TRUE BLO JOB, SO TRUE !
WHAT A FREAK SHOW THIS YANKEE & JETER ENVIOUS @SSHOLE IS.
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 5:07 PM
Its or It's ? Everytime or Every time ? Naught or not ? Grammatical or grammatically ? i or I ? Seeked or sought ? Imitatio or imitation ? Onesself or oneself ?
If i see a typo I pee myself. I should seeked help.
A misspelled word makes me s h i t myself... For that I have seeked help.
I just peed and crapped myself, myself again and again and again... Poo poop dee doo.
I have no underwear left...
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:35 PM
Boy, you handle being wrong so badly that you've snapped son? All thanks to this:
So confident in your stupidity, son! Hey nutJoba, can you believe this guy? What a maroon!
Do you think son realized he was "grammatical incorrect" while calling you "grammatical incorrect" ????
hahahhahahahhaha
I guess I can take this child back to school:
Son,
"Naught" means "nothing" and the phrase "all for naught" means "all for nothing". This is often misspelled "all for not".
Got it?
Red Sox Steroids
03/09/2010 3:51 PM
"RE: in the morning all your hate will be for not...
You not understanding this line and thinking it is grammatical incorrect just proves that you never made it out of grammar school, jack@ss.."
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:07 PM
Boy son, I guess I did snap hard yesterday! Everytime I get a beatdown like I did yesterday, I come back the next day and steal login names. I give son?
Will you Yankees fans ever stop kicking me?
BWAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA I SNAPPED... HELP MOMMY.
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:05 PM
RE: "Don't go out of your way to spit on the Yankees. Go ahead and hate them but remember....blowing out there candle doesn't make yours burn any brighter my friend."
Listen son I have no life and no friends I get off I being a Yankee hating cyber azzhole.
It's all I have.
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:05 PM
son... i love the sound of the word. son son son son son
Derek Jeter is overrated
03/10/2010 4:05 PM
Still confident in your stupidity, nutJoba, son?