A week ago Cam Schlittler was coming off one of the finest pitching performances in postseason history. Eight innings, 12 strikeouts, no runs, no walks in clinching the Wild Card Series against the Red Sox. He threw 50 four-seam fastballs, sitting 99 and not throwing one below 97. He completely flummoxed the Boston lineup.

Then there’s Wednesday night, where Schlittler wasn’t quite so dominant, but still had a damned good start — 6.1 innings that should have been longer if not for a booted ground ball, two earned runs, but just two strikeouts. The Toronto Blue Jays are the hardest team in baseball to strike out, so to see a rookie change his game and become a contact manager is almost as impressive as the postseason debut.

Half of Cam’s pitches against Boston were the four-seam variety,

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