Get yer brooms out

The available supply of Rolaids just declined significantly up in Boston as the Yankees take all three of their home stand against the Red Sox. But the important thing is, the Yankees are now in sole possession of Wild Card lead.

A terrific three games. Even today's 5-0 win was a tense affair, with Chien-Ming Wang taking a no-hitter into the Seventh, and the score at 2-0 going into the Eight, when the Yankees blew it open against the previously god-like Okajima.

And it wouldn't be a Yankees/BoSox series without some weird occurrence. In the Seventh, Youkilis ran onto the infield grass to avoid a tag from A-Rod and the umpires had to have a conference to decide if he was automatically out for running out of the base path. In the ninth, Joba Chamberlain, after another terrific inning in the eighth, threw two high pitches to Youkilis and was immediately ejected by the home plate umpire. Said a very angry Joe Torre after the game, "The Ump] told me he wanted to 'send a message.' They should school these umpires. I'm not going to send a 21-year old kid out to throw at a batter's head."