"To Randy Johnson, his performance now can be viewed properly in terms of how it affects the team, not just his personal record. Johnson has repeated since he joined the Giants last offseason that his goal was to help the club improve, not to secure the five victories he needed to reach 300. With Johnson having achieved the latter Thursday night, he hopes that attention will be paid to his efforts to hasten the Giants' turnaround.

"The part that I really came here for starts from my next start until the end of the year," Johnson said Friday in the wake of his six-inning, one-run outing in the Giants' 5-1 triumph at Washington.When that next start will come is an issue. Johnson's bruised left shoulder, which he sustained as he hit the turf after chasing down Anderson Hernandez's sixth-inning comebacker, has put him on day-to-day playing status. "It's pretty sore," Johnson said. "That's why I came out of the game, not because I was 45."Though Johnson said that he's "not too worried" about his shoulder, his iffy health adds to the disarray in the starting rotation created by Wednesday's rainout at Washington, which forced him and Matt Cain to pitch Thursday. That left the Giants without anybody who can pitch on their regular four days' rest here on Monday."