Twenty!
Right now. At 39, on the last day of the season, Mike Mussina is a 20-game winner. He becomes the oldest pitcher to win 20 games for the first time. I'm sitting here in Mussina's Stanford jersey with a coffee table full of early Mussina cards, and even after doing work all day, just able to watch the ESPN.com box, I'm thrilled. 6 IN, 3 H, 0 R, 3 K, 20-9.
"He is undecided about whether to keep pitching, but if this was his last game, he went out on a highlight," Tyler Kepner writes in a quick take for the Times. LoHud Yankees offers a Bullwinkle salute. Thank you to 11-year-old Patrick for picking the right baseball hero.
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