New York Yankees starting pitcher Cam Schlittler turned in arguably the biggest showing of the club’s season as they defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-0 in a pivotal Wild Card Game 3 and earned a date with the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALDS.

Schlittler was not pleased with how some of Boston’s fans chose to conduct themselves leading up to his start, and the Massachusetts native was more than willing to credit his New England roots as one of the driving forces behind Thursday night's illustration of mental fortitude.

“We're aggressive back home,” Schlittler told Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. “We're going to try to get under people's skin. They just picked the wrong guy to do it to — and the wrong team to do it to, as well.”

The 24-year-old tossed eight innings of scoreless baseball and stru

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