The Cleveland Guardians’ surge and the Houston Astros’ three-game losing streak at home put both teams level on record entering Monday.<\/p>\n
Cleveland has loftier ambitions at this point. The Guardians are one game back of the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central. Cleveland hosts Detroit for three games starting on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The Guardians finish with the Texas Rangers, who should be eliminated by the weekend, so they can still rebound properly if they lose the series to Detroit. <\/p>\n
Houston finishes the regular season in California against the Athletics and Los Angeles Angels. <\/p>\n
The Astros should, at least in theory, finish the regular season with a winning week. They can put some pressure on the Seattle Mariners in the AL West race, but Seattle gets three with the Colorado Rockies at home to begin the week. <\/p>\n
Houston’s likely landing spot is one of the two wild-card spots. <\/p>\n
Both the Astros and Guardians would love some help from the Toronto Blue Jays against the Boston Red Sox during the week.<\/p>\n
Boston closes with three games at home versus Detroit. That could be the most important series of the weekend in the AL. <\/p>\n
If Detroit loses its series in Cleveland, it will be in play for both the AL Central and a wild-card spot at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
Detroit, Cleveland, Boston and Houston are likely fighting for three places. The New York Yankees own a three-game advantage over Boston. <\/p>\n
The Yankees finish with the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, so the assumption is they will win a few games and clinch a playoff spot while chaos takes place beneath them in the standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Guardians’ surge and the Houston Astros’ three-game losing streak at home put both teams level on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-161321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}