Rookie righty Cam Schlittler was in a league of his own Thursday night , striking out 12 over eight goose-egg innings to carry the New York Yankees to a 4-0 shellacking of the Boston Red Sox in the series-deciding Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series.

The 24-year-old's dazzling mound work not only helped New York claw back after a Game 1 loss, the first squad to stage such a comeback since MLB’s 2022 playoff expansion, but also immortalized him in Bronx postseason folklore.

Schlittler threw 107 pitches, 75 for strikes, and hit triple-digit velocity 11 times, topping out at 100.8 mph. He struck out two more batters than any other Yankees pitcher in a postseason debut and became the first pitcher in postseason history, rookie or otherwise, to throw eight shutout innings whi

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