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The other starter had ties to Babe Ruth. Cam Schlittler nevertheless was the star in the house that he built.

Because of that, for the first time since 2003 — when Aaron Boone could still decide a game with a swing — historic order was restored to the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry.

It didn’t take the drama of a Bucky Dent or Boone homer, though both were in attendance at Yankee Stadium. So they watched what it did take — a kid from Walpole, Mass., dominating the team for which he grew up rooting.

Schlittler, in career major league start No. 15, authored one of the most big-time pitching efforts in Yankees h

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