With the New York Yankees ' backs against the wall in their AL Wild Card series clash against the Boston Red Sox, they had to rely on rookie starter Cam Schlittler to get them over the line . Schlittler had a very good rookie year (2.96 ERA in 14 starts, 73.0 innings in the regular season), but in a postseason do-or-die setting, it's always a big task to expect a rookie to come up huge.

But Schlittler turned in a performance that not even the wildest Yankees fan could have thought of, as he pitched eight innings of shutout ball and struck out 12 (walking none and allowing just five hits) en route to a 4-0 win for New York, punching their ticket to the ALDS to face the Toronto Blue Jays in the process.

Schlittler has emerged as a big-time performer for the Yankees and someone they'll

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