31.  Any self-respecting baseball historian knows the names by heart, and almost invariably rattles them off so quickly it's as if the five men had one name:

32.  Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa led off the ninth with a towering homer to right-center field.

33.  Cuellar said he hopes Wolcott's gutsy outing will rub off on some of the other pitchers who have been struggling.

34.  Derek Bell hit a bases-loaded single off a rusty Robb Nen in the 12th to complete Houston's sweep.

35.  Derek Bell hit a one-out double, and Jeff Bagwell hit his 19th homer of the season, a two-run shot off Baldwin.

36.  Derek Fisher, who didn't play in Game 4, came off the bench and contributed eight points in his first nine minutes.

37.  Derek Harper's candid comments are bouncing off the locker room walls in Dallas.

38.  Derek Harper's defense helped cut off the air supply early, enough so that the New York Knicks appeared headed toward their most satisfying victory of the season.

39.  Derek Jeter accounted for the Yankees' first three runs with a home run off Seattle's Paul Abbott in the fifth inning.

40.  Derek Jeter did not get off so lucky.