NEW YORK >> Andrés Giménez is ready for the rowdy gauntlet of Yankee Stadium.

“It’s a mindset,” the Cleveland second baseman said through a translator ahead of tonight’s AL Championship Series opener. “It’s just this sense of belief we can do it because we know we can play baseball the right way.”

In the ALCS for the first time since 2016, Cleveland sends Alex Cobb to the mound against the Yankees’ Carlos Rodón in the start of the best-of-seven matchup for a World Series berth against the Los Angeles Dodgers or New York Mets.

Cleveland seeks its seventh AL pennant and first since 2016, trying to win its third World Series championship after 1920 and 1948. The Yankees are trying for their 41st pennant and 28th title, a heady history that leaves any year without a ring condemned as catastrophic.

“What makes the Yankees the Yankees is winning and winning a World Series,” said New York shortstop Anthony Volpe, who grew up a Yankees fan in Manhattan and New Jersey. “I had a way better view now than I did when I was a fan. There was sometimes where we were like basically sitting with our backs against the upper deck top row and it felt like the stadium was going to come down shaking.”

AL Central champion Cleveland beat Detroit in a five-game Division Series and the AL East-winning Yankees defeated Kansas City 3-1. While the Mets, Yankees and Dodgers are 1-2-3 in payroll at $266 million and up, the Guardians are 23rd at $109 million.

“We’re confident in who we are,” Guardians first-year manager Stephen Vogt said. “All we can control is us.”

A chill in the air led some players to wear ski caps for Sunday’s workout.

“I’m sure Yankee Stadium is going to be rocking tomorrow night,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “It looks like cooler weather is moving in for these first two games, so it’s going to have that October feel to it.”

Ugly past >> Fans in the right-field bleachers pelted Cleveland outfielders with bottles, cans and debris moments after New York rallied for a 5-4 win in April 2022, a weekend in which Cleveland’s Myles Straw called Yankees supporters the “worst fan base on the planet.”

Two years ago, Cleveland’s Josh Naylor angered Yankees fans with his rock-the-baby celebration of a home run off Gerrit Cole in Game 4 of a Division Series won by the Yankees in five games.

“The reception a couple months ago was pretty good, so I’m sure it will be the same,” Vogt said.

showing appreciation >> Cleveland’s José Ramírez should get more nationwide attention in Boone’s view.

“He’s the complete package,” the Yankees manager said. “If I hear another how underappreciated, underrated he is from somebody on a network or something, I want to rip my arms off and throw it at the TV. He’s not underappreciated. He is not underrated. He’s a great on-track Hall of Fame player.”

Ramírez had a quiet ALDS, going 3 for 16 with three RBIs,

“He’s one of the elite players in this league,” Vogt said. “He’s a top-five player in this league every year. In the baseball circles, everyone knows about it and talks about it.”