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Get ready for chaos in Astros-Yankees battle of the bullpen games

NEW YORK -- It's just like any other day, and it's nothing like any other day. As the New York Yankees and Houston Astros packed their gear and headed to the airport for a 3 ½-hour-long overnight flight, they said all the right things -- that they'd done this before, that this was old hat, that it was just like any other getaway day. And in a sense they weren't lying. Packing and flying and playing the next night are all familiar undertakings.

Of course, taking that tack ignores the context of this particular undertaking, and the context happens to make Saturday unique in the annals of baseball history.