The Yankees have swept the Sox, and set themselves up for a shot at the division and the wild card. 5 games back is still a ways at this point, but it's possible - a sweep in the other direction would have been lights out.

Here's what really encourages me - weird stuff happened to the Red Sox:

Boston manager Terry Francona, already miffed at the commissioner's office for sending a security official into his dugout a night earlier to check whether he was wearing his uniform shirt, got hot again, and this time it had nothing to do with the style police.

Francona was ejected in the seventh inning after umpires reversed a call and ruled Kevin Youkilis out for running out of the basepaths to elude a tag by third baseman Alex Rodriguez on J.D. Drew's sharp grounder. Boston trailed 2-0 at the time, and the decision gave the Yankees a key double play. The Red Sox never recovered.

Heh. I love it when stuff like that happens to the Red Sox :)

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