Afternoon Baseball

Randy Johnson was a 41-year-old pitcher yet again tonight, but he didn't take the loss. Rivera did, of all people. And that doesn't excuse the Yankee offense for not scoring after the second inning, or for Jeter hitting a weak check-swing DP on the first pitch he saw to end the game. To be fair, Jeter actually had a good game up until that point.
But the Yanks are still in the wild-card lead, albeit with the unspectactular record of 77-60.

The worry, of course, is that Aaron Small can throw shutouts, Shawn Chacon can pitch well enough to win, but the consistent question marks are Randy Johnson and Mike Mussina, men with nearly 500 wins between them.
It's in their hands, at this point. Torre, Cashman and the rest can do little to help.

P.S. Bernie was taking decent hacks, but was no where near the ball on most of them. At least he did his best to run over the catcher when he was thrown out at the plate -- the result of a terrible, Randolph-esque decision by Luis Sojo to send him. (Sojo is still the 3rd base coach, right?)