Mark your calendars. Today's games will go a long way in determining divisional and Wild Card races as teams come down the home stretch of the regular season.

Here's a look at a few of the intriguing games on tap.

In terms of pure intrigue, the American League has an advantage over the National League as we check out the MLB Power Rankings heading into the final two weeks of the season.

The NL division races are not officially decided, but the picture is pretty clear in all three divisions. Barring collapses by the Cardinals, Dodgers and Mets, it's highly unlikely any of these three will not win its respective division. And the Wild Card teams have been all but decided, with only home-field advantage still in play for the Pirates and Cubs.

Below are today's starting lineups that have been made public by Major League Baseball's clubs.

A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire.

Magic numbers, matchup drama and a milestone a minute.

Not much more needs to be said about the state of Major League Baseball when The Week Ahead is the penultimate seven-day period in both the scintillating month of September and the season.

MILWAUKEE -- David Stearns hadn't been born when the Brewers went to the World Series in 1982. As the team's new general manager, his job is to get them back.

The Brewers hired the 30-year-old Astros assistant general manager to replace outgoing Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin. The choice, first reported on Sunday by FoxSports.com, was announced by the team on Monday.

Major League Baseball's division leaders and Wild Card shoo-ins are a day closer to clinching, but there's still plenty of intrigue in store when it comes to the standings.

Key races are tightening, and there's still room for a team to mount an improbable rally for October glory. Here's a look at some key developments from Sunday's action that helped shape the playoff picture.

The season is long, and we're taught to respect its length with patience and perseverance and a steady heartbeat that prevents us from getting too swept up in the highs or lows. But all that goes out the window in the furious final stretch.

With just two weeks to play, we're now at the point in baseball's calendar where wins can feel like coronations, losses can feel like daggers to the heart and history is often on the line with a trip to the mound or to the plate.

Here are the Top 5 GIFs of the day, courtesy of @MLBGifs.

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KANSAS CITY -- As the Royals stumble through September, having lost 11 of 16, manager Ned Yost was asked if he put value into the notion of momentum as Kansas City heads toward October and the postseason.

"I'd be stupid to say I didn't," Yost said. "You can't flip a switch. You want to be playing good baseball going into the playoffs and have everything settled.

CLEVELAND -- Two players from opposing teams crossed paths in front of the visiting dugout at Progressive Field during batting practice before an evening game in early September.

One of them was a former top prospect who was a left-handed-hitting third baseman who did not live up to expectations at the hot corner, despite several chances over a four-year period, prompting a demotion to Triple-A and a position switch to the outfield that revitalized his career.

The 2015 postseason schedule will begin on Oct. 6, with the 111th Fall Classic to open on Oct. 27 in an American League ballpark, thanks to the AL's 6-3 victory in last month's All-Star Game presented by T-Mobile. The full postseason schedule can be found at MLB.com/postseason.

Following the scheduled regular-season finales on Sunday, Oct. 4, potentially necessary regular-season tiebreaker games would be telecast exclusively by ESPN the next day. Then the postseason will begin that Tuesday, with the AL Wild Card Game presented by Budweiser on ESPN. The National League equivalent is scheduled for Oct. 7, televised exclusively by TBS.

After losing the first two games of their series against the rival Cubs at Wrigley Field, the Cardinals were desperately trying to hang on to a lead in Sunday afternoon's finale.

Fortunately for St. Louis, a pair of great throws saved the day and helped bring a 4-3 victory that maintained the club's four-game lead over Pittsburgh in the National League Central. Statcast™ was on the job for both, tracking Jason Heyward as he fired a strike to the plate to complete a double play in the eighth, and then Tony Cruz as he caught Quintin Berry stealing second in the ninth.

ARLINGTON -- The Rangers really didn't know about Prince Fielder or Adrian Beltre when everybody showed up for Spring Training in Arizona.

Fielder had the biggest doubts surrounding him because he was coming back from a serious neck injury that required surgery and limited him to 42 games in 2014. But there were also questions about Beltre because of his advancing age, a contract that was coming down to the end and his own publicly-expressed desire to play his final years with a contending team rather than one that was going through a major rebuilding project.

Sometimes the best offseason acquisitions are neither the most publicized nor the most expensive.

Last offseason's work by the Kansas City Royals will prove that point. Senior vice president of baseball operations and general manager Dayton Moore acquired seven players. But there wasn't much fanfare involved. In fact, there was some criticism that the Royals had not done enough to bolster their position as defending American League champions.

Here are five interesting items from around the big leagues this weekend …

• In a 10-3 win over the Tigers on Sunday, Kendrys Morales homered in the third, fourth, and eighth and tripled in the sixth to have a historic day at the plate for the Royals. It marked the eighth time a Royals player has had a three-homer game, and the first since Danny Tartabull on July 6, 1991. The others: John Mayberry on July 1, 1975, and June 1, 1977; George Brett on July 22, 1979, and April 20, 1983; Tony Solaita on Sept. 7, 1975; and Bo Jackson on July 17, 1990. Morales' 15 total bases set a new franchise record, eclipsing the 14 collected by Brett on May 28, 1979. That day, Brett homered twice while hitting for the cycle.

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