September, the ultimate month of Main League Baseball’s regular-season calendar, has arrived. Baseball’s stretch drive is right here, and MLB playoff races are heating up. The New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies enter September attempting to hold on to high seeds in every league, whereas there are intriguing races most locations you look.

By means of reminder, MLB now grants 12 playoff berths — a complete of six to the division winners after which three wild-card berths in every league. The highest two division winners in every league as measured by general document are rewarded with first-round byes, which suggests they will not must play within the best-of-three Wild Card Sequence that capabilities as that first spherical.

As for what hangs within the stability, there’s fairly a little bit of it. The Yankees and Baltimore Orioles stay locked in a good battle atop the American League East standings. Three groups — the Cleveland Guardians, Kansas Metropolis Royals, and Minnesota Twins — have designs on the AL Central title. The Dodgers, Phillies and Houston Astros all have pretty snug leads of their respective divisions, however they have not buried the competitors but. The one group that has primarily wrapped up its division title is the first-place Milwaukee Brewers, who’ve run away with the NL Central.

On the wild-card entrance, the New York Mets and the out of the blue scorching Chicago Cubs try to trace down the Atlanta Braves, who maintain the third and remaining spot within the NL. On the AL aspect, the Boston Crimson Sox are hoping to hawk down that third spot, which the Twins presently maintain. All of that is to say nothing of all of the jockeying for seeding and people aforementioned byes.

Now let’s get you caught up on the place all these races stand proper now as the ultimate weeks of the common season loom earlier than us. All division and postseason projections referenced within the standings come from SportsLine.

2024 MLB playoff image

If the season ended right now…
American League
Byes: No. 1 Yankees, No. 2 Guardians
Wild Card Sequence: No. 3 Astros vs. No. 6 Twins, No. 4 Orioles vs. No. 5 Royals

Nationwide League
Byes: No. 1 Dodgers, No. 2 Phillies
Wild Card Sequence: No. 3 Brewers vs. No. 6 Braves, No. 4 D-backs vs. No. 5 Padres

American League standings

Nationwide League standings

MLB wild-card standings

2024 World Sequence odds

(As of Aug. 31)

• Dodgers: +350 
• Yankees: +550 
• Phillies: +550
• Orioles: +675
• Astros: +800
• Brewers: +1200
• Braves: +1300
• Padres: +1300
• Diamondbacks: +1300
• Guardians: +1500
• Royals: +1800
• Twins: +1800