That Shawn Chacon deal has worked out pretty nicely. Today, Mr. Chacon continued his brilliant work on the mound for the Yankees (thus far) by pitching 8 innings of scoreless, 4 hit ball. He struck out 5, walked 3 and although a runner reached third on two separate occasions, he failed to allow a man to cross the plate. With his awesome day, his record improved to 2-1 as a Yankee with a 1.64 ERA over 32 innings. After throwing 127 pitches, Felix Rodriguez relieved him and pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

The Yankees only had 7 hits (with 4 walks) of their own, but were able to get 5 runs in. This was led by Alex Rodriguez (1 for 3, 2 RBI), Jorge Posada (1 for 2, 2 walks, 2 runs) and Bernie Williams (1 for 4, 1 run, 1 RBI on a sac fly). Jeter (1 run) and Tino (1 RBI) each had 2 hits. The other run was scored by Gary Sheffield, who had reached on an error. Bernie's batting average is back up above .250 again - .254 to be exact. The last time he was there (before Tuesday) was July 16.

The Yankees improve to 67-54. Perhaps one of the Red Sox or A's can lose so we can gain a little ground. If the Royals happen to finally end their 19 game losing streak, we'll move to a half game back in the Wild Card standings.

Tomorrow we'll get to see Randy Johnson (11-7, 4.22) go against old El Titan de Bronze (7-7, 4.24) at 3:05 Eastern.