21.   If Seattle is to stop the Yankees, the Mariners must overcome what appears to be an inherent disadvantage in how the pitching rotations are aligned.

22.   In January, the Red Sox also were on the verge of signing Kevin Appier as a restricted free agent for their starting pitching rotation.

23.   In the same way overexpansion in baseball makes it nearly impossible to fill a pitching rotation, most hockey teams can barely string together two scoring lines.

24.   It will be no surprise, however, to see Tao Hua and An Zhongxin in the starting pitching rotation for the Chinese.

25.   It was decided that the player should be pulled from the regular pitching rotation to rest.

26.   Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue joined Hunter in the pitching rotation.

27.   Joe Torre juggled the pitching rotation he used in the sweep of Texas last week.

28.   Mark Prior, Rik Currier and Anthony Reyes form a pitching rotation most college coaches dream of carrying into a best-of-three series.

29.   More likely, the Yankee pitching rotation will be names you have not yet heard.

30.   Neither team has revealed its pitching rotation.