Teams Yankee fans probably wrote off months ago, like the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Guardians, Tampa Bay Rays, and Kansas City Royals, are all still involved. Here's where it gets frustrating, though, with 17 games to go in the Yankees' regular season. The main difference there was that those Mets had three of those 17 games head-to-head with the team chasing them in the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees do not play Texas again. They do not play Cleveland.