ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Andrelton Simmons, the Los Angeles Angels shortstop, slid headfirst into third base with a two-out, two-run, seventh-inning triple that put his team in the lead on Friday night, he pounded the dirt and pointed to his teammates in the third-base dugout.
The exultation also felt like an attempt to send a message to Simmons’s boyhood friend, the Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius.
O.K., let’s see what you can do.
Given the opportunity a few innings later, Gregorius showed him — belting a 10th-inning home run into the right-field bleachers that gave the Yankees a 4-3 victory at Anaheim Stadium.