Only a handful of the division leaders in Major League Baseball can feel safe about their advantages going into the second week of September.
Three of the six division leaders after Sunday’s action hold edges of three games or fewer.
Both wild-card races are tight as well with multiple teams within five games of the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners in the final wild-card spots.
Some clarity should come to a handful of races in the next week since a good amount of playoff contenders play each other, including a monster series between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees that begins on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.