The Week Ahead: Run to postseason heats up

It starts with a doozy and ends with a doozy, and in between, there will be plenty of good stories to read between the lines. We’re talking, of course, about the week ahead in Major League Baseball, which starts Monday and takes us into mid-September and begins the countdown of the last 20 games of the regular season for each club. Pennant races are on full blast, and we’ll get a lot more clarity as to where those races are headed over the course of this week.