NEW YORK – The New York Yankees will turn to a kid to save their season in Game 3 of their American League wild card series : Cam Schlittler, 24, has just 14 major league starts under his belt, his place in the club’s rotation only recently secured.

Yet Schlittler is a grizzled veteran compared to the cherub the Boston Red Sox will wheel out for this winner-take-all battle Oct. 2.

Who is Connelly Early, you ask?

He’s less than a month removed from his major league debut, which came Sept. 9, which was just a little more than a year since he was toiling for the Class A Greenville (S.C.) Drive in the South Atlantic League.

And now? A win-or-go-home game, before nearly 50,000 in Yankee Stadium, barely two years removed from the University of Virginia. Expert MLB daily picks: Unique

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