"He's got to keep battling," said Greg Cadaret, who won his first game as a starter since April 28, 1990, with five and one-third decent innings.

All they wanted were five decent innings at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox.

Despite a decent eight innings from Randy Johnson, the Mariners continued to fizzle.

By the way, Ogea also pitched five decent innings in Cleveland's 4-1 victory over the Marlins before tiring from running the bases.

Rusch pitched a few decent innings, but he allowed two homers and lost to the Florida Marlins, 8-3.

Once he started mixing his pitches and staying ahead of hitters, he had some decent innings.

Scott Kamieniecki started for the first time in 13 days and gave the Yankees six decent innings before leaving with the score tied, 3-3.

After last week's rainout, Cone went out two days later, pitched four decent innings but was gone three batters into the sixth.

He pitched seven decent innings but lost to the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3.

The Mets led, 4-3, after starter Brian Bohanon had given them six decent innings.