NEW YORK (AP) -Johnny Damon limped across home plate with the Yankees fourth run of the night - in what may be his final act with New York.
Damon strained his right calf in the third inning of the Yankees' 7-3 World Series-clinching win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 on Wednesday night and was taken out of the game.
``I've got plenty of time for it to heal now,'' said Damon, who turned 36 as the postgame celebration went into Thursday.
Damon was in the final year of a four-year contract with the Yankees and the team will likely only want to bring back Damon or Hideki Matsui, the Series MVP whose four-year deal is also up.
Damon walked with one out in the third and scored from second base on Matsui's two-run single. Damon appeared to be favoring his leg as he ran down the third-base line and crossed the plate standing up to give the Yankees a 4-1 lead over Philadelphia.
Jerry Hairston Jr. took Damon's place in left field for the fourth inning.
Manager Joe Girardi told Fox during a fourth-inning interview that Damon ``felt his calf a little bit'' on Matsui's foul ball down the right-field line earlier in the at-bat, ``and when he scored it got worse.''
Damon struck out in his first at-bat.
