As the calendar turns to September, four weeks remain in Major League Baseball’s regular season. That’s eight series apiece before October.In this second installment of our stretch-run “Schedule Watch” series, we’re covering the next two weeks of games for each contending team. If you were hoping for some mighty head-to-head matchups with playoff implications, you’re in luck. We have Chicago Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers — twice! We have Atlanta Braves-Philadelphia Phillies — twice! We have … Cleveland Guardians-Toronto Blue Jays?The American League is weird, man.Below, we have listed each contender’s upcoming schedule, its playoff odds and strength-of-schedule figures — the latter two provided by FanGraphs. We also picked a key upcoming series for each team. Any team with at least 10 percent playoff odds is considered a contender for this exercise. The AL has a whopping 10 teams with at least a 20 percent shot at a postseason berth. And four of them are under .500!Teams are listed in order of playoff odds. Winning percentages and odds are updated through Sunday afternoon.AMERICAN LEAGUETampa Bay RaysRecord: 82-54

Playoff odds: 100 percent

Strength of schedule: .519OpponentDatesGamesLocationWin%MetsAug. 31-Sept. 23Home.445RangersSept. 3-64Road.489BravesSept. 8-103Road.599AstrosSept. 11-133Home.504Key series: Sept. 8-10 at BravesThis is the calm before the storm, because after these two weeks, the Rays have a series against the Athletics before finishing with a 10-game gauntlet against the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Phillies. That’s a tough way to end the regular season. If the Rays are going to stay atop the AL East, they will have to earn it.Plus, these next two weeks are no cakewalk. The New York Mets have not been a pushover lately, the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros are fighting for a playoff spot, and no team has been better at home this season than the Braves. At this point, the Rays aren’t worried about missing the playoffs, but they’d certainly like to hold onto that top seed in the AL.New York YankeesRecord: 78-59