NEW YORK – The Yankees’ hopes of toppling the Red Sox and advancing out of the American League Wild Card Series rest on the right arm of a Massachusetts rookie, the son of a suburban Boston police chief.

Cam Schlittler will take the ball in Thursday’s win-or-go-home Game 3, forced after the Yankees notched a 4-3 victory over their historic rivals Wednesday in the Bronx. For the 24-year-old, raised in Walpole, Mass., and having opened this season with Double-A Somerset, it’s a meteoric rise to the biggest assignment of his young career: trying to pitch New York into the next round.

“I would say growing up in Boston, I take pride in being from Boston,” Schlittler said. “When it came to my career and where I want to be, this is where I want to be.”

The Red Sox will counter with left-hand

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