14 - 4, 11 - 1, 3 - 6

Yankees 14 - Red Sox 4, Yankees 11 - Red Sox 1: After losing 11 to 1, Pedro Martinez said a very strange thing: "If we get to the playoffs, we are not going to be the ones who are scared."

If we get to the playoffs? Unless they crash and burn in the next two weeks, the Sox are a lock to win the Wild Card. And until this weekend they were saying they were a lock to win the Division, because they're the better team.

And why do the Sox keep talking about the Yankees being scared? The Yankees always talk about the Sox as one of the best teams in baseball, and the Yanks have been in first for months (and years).

If the Sox were the team they keep saying they are, after beating Rivera Friday night they should have come out and stomped on the Yankees the next day. Instead, they let the Yankees score five runs in the first, and four more in the second before Lowe could get a single out.

The Yanks were great. You have to do it on the field.

Yankees 3 - Blue Jays 6: It happens every September. A young team 25 games out of first brings a rookie up for his first game and the rookie makes the pennant contender look helpless. Put the same young team one game behind the contenders, fighting for the pennant, and they couldn't play as well if they're life depended on it. It's just baseball.

The good news is the Red Sox lost too.