Tomorrow the American League Championship Series starts, pitting the familiar Yankees against the long lost Rangers. The Rangers are riding great pitching performances from Cliff Lee and C.J. Wilson into this series, while the Yankee bats overwhelmed the Twins in their division series.
But the difference in this series will be the Ranger batters. The Rangers are an uncompromisingly aggressive hitting team. Yes, they strike out, but they don't apologize for it. They have enough team speed to use it as a wrinkle, but not enough to consider it a team strength like the Rays they just defeated. What they do have is the ability to frustrate pitchers by hitting anything thrown at them.
In the regular season, the Rangers took 3 of 4 games from the Yankees, all of which were high scoring slugfests. While it will be critical for at least Lee and Wilson to post quality outings, look for the Ranger hitters' aggression to enable the Rangers to outslug the Yankees.
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