Months before Cam Schlittler made the biggest start of his life, the Yankees’ rookie right-hander found himself in his native New England with an evening to kill.

The 24-year-old, pitching for the Double-A Somerset Patriots on May 21, had just wrapped up an early day of work on the road, twirling six scoreless innings against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, a Blue Jays affiliate, after an 11:08 a.m. start.

In need of something to do with Boston a little more than an hour away, Schlittler called in a favor: he asked for tickets to that night’s game between the Red Sox and Mets at Fenway Park.

Matt Hyde, the Yankees’ Northeast area scout who found Schlittler at Walpole High School in Massachusetts before he starred at Northeastern, came up clutch, securing some stubs for the pitcher an

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