When Garrett Crochet absolutely stymied the Yankees lineup on Tuesday, striking out 11 in 7.2 innings of one-run ball, everyone expected that would be the best performance by a starting pitcher in the AL Wild Card round, if not the entire postseason run. And yet, in the end, it would only be the second-best performance of the series, as Yankees rookie Cam Schlittler, making his postseason debut in just his 15th career start, put together one of the best postseason outings of all time. In eight shutout frames, he struck out a dozen, allowed just five hits, and did not walk a batter.

Schlittler piled up the accolades. His 12 strikeouts set a Major League record for most strikeouts in a do-or-die game in postseason series, a record previously owned by Cliff Lee (2011 ALDS Game 5), Justin Ver

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