Given that the Yankees are currently three games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles in the AL East with 12 games to go for both teams, the Yankees would need at least nine wins/Orioles' losses in order to finish the regular season with the same record as Baltimore. However, in that scenario, it is very likely that Baltimore would hold the tiebreaker.

The reigning champion Rangers are also struggling to keep up, while their 2023 World Series opponent, the Diamondbacks, are on track to finish well ahead of where they did last season and make another run.

The Brewers were the first MLB team to clinch a playoff berth this year, and with less than two weeks left in the regular season, the focus now turns to postseason seeding and matchups. A four-game split with the Phillies means that Milwaukee still slots in as the third seed in the National League,