BOSTON (AP) - The New York Yankees are going to the playoffs. And the Boston Red Sox still have a couple of chances to join them there.

New York won its eighth consecutive AL East title on Saturday, scorching Tim Wakefield for three homers and riding Randy Johnson to an 8-4 victory over Boston.

Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui homered, and Rodriguez had four hits to help Johnson (17-8) settle down and win his sixth consecutive decision.

The Yankees' victory clinched a playoff berth, and they took the division because Cleveland lost 4-3 to the Chicago White Sox a few minutes earlier.

The Red Sox finished second in the division for the eighth straight year, but the defending World Series champions can do no worse than a tie for the AL wild card.

If Boston loses on Sunday and Cleveland wins, they will meet at Fenway Park on Monday to decide the AL's last playoff berth. If Cleveland loses on Sunday, the Red Sox get the wild-card berth no matter what they do.

Tim Wakefield (16-12) started on three days' rest for the first time this year and gave up seven runs on seven hits, striking out one in five innings.

White Sox 4, Indians 3

CLEVELAND (AP) - It comes down to this for Cleveland: Win and hope.

Rookie Tadahito Iguchi hit a three-run homer off Jake Westbrook (15-15) in the seventh inning, and Chicago held on to send the Indians into the regular season's final day without control of their October fate.

Iguchi's shot to center, his 15th, snapped a 1-all tie and helped set up a Sunday in which the Indians, who didn't deliver with the bases loaded in the eighth, will have to win or have their inspirational season end in disappointment.

It could have been so much easier, but Cleveland lost by one run for the fifth time in six games, jeopardizing a postseason that seemed guaranteed a few days ago when it concluded a 17-2 stretch.

Jon Garland (18-10) allowed just four hits in 6 2-3 innings, and Chicago's bullpen was able to hold off the Indians, who have lost a club record 36 one-run games, including all nine to the White Sox.

Bobby Jenks pitched a perfect ninth for his sixth save.