Francesa cites Mussina's 2 best performances

Both are post season elimination games:

• 1. 2001, Game 3 ALDS, NYY v Oakland, final score 1-0 (elimination game, Jeter flip)

• 2. 2003, Game 7 ALCS Red Sox v NYY, Mussina pitched 3 innings in relief (elimination game), replaced Clemens top 4th, Red Sox leading 4-0, runners on 1st and 3rd, NO OUT. He got out of it, then pitched the 5th and 6th. Score, Red Sox 4, Yankees 1. The game ended in 11 innings, Yankees winning 6-5, going to the World Series.

(Lupica, NYDN):"It does not always mean he was the life of the party in the Yankee clubhouse, and it seemed like he was still talking about the trip the Yankees made to Japan to start the season a year later. He won some awfully important games in the playoffs - it was Mussina who pitched so brilliantly in the 1-0 game that Derek Jeter saved with his flip pass to Jorge Posada, the night Jeter came from nowhere and looked like an option quarterback - but lost some, too."...

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