The New York Yankees and their View atop MLB Baseball

The New York Yankees are back on top of MLB Baseball.

Now that they are in first place in the American League East, the New York Yankees have stopped watching the scoreboard quite so regularly as they once did.

''As long as we take care of business, it doesn't matter what the other teams do,'' shortstop Derek Jeter said. ''All we have to worry about is the game we're playing.'' Jeter professed ignorance at what the schedule held for the Yankees, which is probably just as well given what is ahead.

Their game against the defending MLB Baseball champions, Chicago White Sox, was the first of 21 games the Yankees are scheduled to play over 20 days. The team does not have another day off until Aug. 28.

By then they will have played seven games against the Angels, five against the Red Sox and three each against the White Sox, Mariners and Orioles.

Only seven of the games are at Yankee Stadium. There is a doubleheader at Fenway Park on Aug. 18.

The Yankees enter the grueling stretch with a two-game lead over the Boston Red Sox. If they emerge still in first place, the division could be theirs as the Yankees play 19 of their final 33 games at home and the road games are against the Royals, Orioles, Blue Jays and Devil Rays.

''You can't look at it and try to project how you'll do,'' manager Joe Torre said. ''It never works out that way. If you start working the matchups, you'll drive yourself crazy. Your mentality has to be to play every game to win.''

''When we lose, you go out and take care of business the next day. That's the only way you can look at it. I know our players realize that. These guys have been around.''

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