The Yankees and Angels prepare for action under the lights at Yankee Stadium on Friday at 7:57 p.m. ET on FOX, kicking off the ALCS with CC Sabathia set to oppose John Lackey. And there is plenty of talk that the Yankees (103-59) and Angels (97-65), baseball's winningest teams of the year, are the best matchup that could have been hoped for.
"That's what everybody is saying," A.J. Burnett said. "Everybody that got this far is a good team. We just played a good team [in the Twins], so I guess the best of the best advance. We've got our work cut out for us, so we'll prepare and get ready."
Pitchouts and slide steps will take on importance for the pitching staff, because, one way or another, the Yankees have to figure out a way to cut down the Angels' speed game. It isn't impenetrable -- they stole 148 bases in 2009, but nobody was caught more (63).
"It's tough when you have [Chone] Figgins over there and he's jumping around and [Erick] Aybar and those guys," Sabathia said. "It's easy to make a bad pitch or hang a pitch to one of the guys in the middle of the lineup."
The Yankees still giggle when the Rally Monkey begins bouncing on the video screen at Angel Stadium and carrying on his late-inning shenanigans, but there's been little fun about the way the Angels have had the Yankees' number.
Since 1995, the Angels have been the only AL team to give the Yankees a losing record (68-80, .459), a testament to how Mike Scioscia's old-school style has given them headaches.
洋基和天使準備採取行動的燈光下，在洋基球場上週五下午7點57分東部福克斯，拉開美聯與消委會薩巴西亞設置為反對約翰雷基。並且有很多傳言稱，洋基（103 - 59）和天使（97-65），棒球隊贏球的一年，是最好的對決本來可以期待的。
回覆刪除“這是每個人都在說，”歐塞爾伯內特說。“每個人都該得到這個遠遠是一個很好的球隊。我們只是起到了良好的團隊[在雙城]，所以我想最好的最好的前進。我們有我們的工作不適合我們，所以我們準備和做好準備。“
Pitchouts和幻燈片的步驟將承擔重要的投手，因為這樣或那樣的洋基必須找出辦法來削減天使'的速度遊戲。這不是堅不可摧的-他們偷走了148基地，2009年，但沒有人被抓獲更多（63）。
“這是當你有困難[喬]菲金斯在那裡，他的蹦蹦跳跳，[埃里克]艾巴爾和那些傢伙，”薩巴西亞說。“這很容易讓壞攤位或掛起一個漆黑的傢伙中間的陣容。“
洋基仍嘻猴拉力賽時開始反彈的電視屏幕在天使球場及背著晚圍墾惡作劇，但極少有歡樂的方式有天使洋基隊人數。
自1995年以來一直是天使鋁隊只讓洋基失去紀錄（68-80,0.459），這反映了麥克梭夏的老派風格，給了他們頭疼的問題。
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