John's Takeaway Points from last night

1. When it works, it looks great, but now and then it doesn't work, and bringing in Soriano did not work.

2. It's tough to win games. C.C. pitched great and deserved the win, but he gets nothing to show for it. In a talk with Bert Blyleven last year, it became clear how so many great pitchers should be in the Hall of Fame. They're not in the Hall because they didn't have enough wins. That's wrong. It's tough to get wins.

3. You can't figure out baseball. The unexpected happens all the time. But you know, if you walk three guys in an inning, something is going to happen.

4. All these people in the media, himself included, have to talk. That's the way it is. They're paid to write. They're paid to talk. But it's really too early to say anything. Still, the emotional temperature that is surrounding every at bat cannot continue. It just can't go on.

5. If you're going to walk Denard Span to leadoff the 10th inning of a game, you gotta figure you're going to lose. It doesn't mean you will lose, but you gotta figure you will.

6. One run is enough to beat you. That's all it takes. One run. It'll beat you. One run.

7. This is one of those games where, if you lose the pennant by one, you say, "Hey, remember that game?"

8. You gotta get the outs. There's no way around it. You gotta get the outs. Yankees didn't get the outs. It's that simple. You gotta get the outs. You don't win if you don't get the outs.

9. It's really too bad for C.C.