Consider Dave Portnoy unimpressed.
As the Yankees celebrated their wild-card series win over the Red Sox with a boozy clubhouse party Thursday night, the Barstool Sports bigwig and noted Boston sports fan wasn’t holding back his feelings.
“Yankees celebrating wild card with champagne,” he wrote on X . “Poverty franchise.”
There was plenty of party to around in the Bronx, where rookie Cam Schlittler dazzled in his first postseason start , throwing eight innings of five-hit ball, finishing with 12 strikeouts and no walks in the 4-0 win.
Schlittler, 24 and a Walpole, Mass. native, had the entirety of Yankee Stadium — all 48,833 of the sold-out venue — behind him as the Bombers became the third team (including 2020) to win a wild-card series after losing Game 1. 3
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