He said it
"There were maybe 250 people out there. ... You don't know how you're going to react to that."
Mike Mussina, on the Yankee Stadium crowd when he started against the Devil Rays yesterday, getting his first win since June 27
On deck
The Cardinals, with Jason Marquis (14-4), visit the Dodgers and Kazuhisa Ishii (13-7) tonight.
Who's hot
Oliver Perez of the Pirates struck out a career-high 14 Astros and gave up just three hits in eight innings.
Who's not
Jason Johnson started for the Tigers yesterday and left 2 1/3 innings later having faced 18 Royals batters, 11 of whom scored.
Line of the day
Joe Randa, Royals 3B
AB R H RBI 2B
7 6 6 2 1