Thursday night was Cam Schlittler’s first time facing the Boston Red Sox — his hometown team — and postseason debut for the New York Yankees. He certainly made the most of it, propelling the Yankees to the ALDS with a historically dominant outing.

Schlittler was phenomenal, essentially replicating Garrett Crochet’s Game 1 masterpiece . The 24-year-old Walpole, MA native silenced the Red Sox’s bats, racking up 12 strikeouts and scattering five hits with no walks over eight shutout innings.

Given the stakes in a winner-take-all game against New York’s top rival, it was an unprecedented performance on par with anything Bob Gibson or Sandy Koufax ever did in October. According to ESPN Insights , Schlittler became the first pitcher in MLB history to go eight scoreless innings with at le

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