There are more games for the Yankees to play, maybe all the way out of October. It’s because on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium — in a Game 3 of a Wild Card series that felt like a lot more than that — Cam Schlittler did to somebody else what teams have been doing in big October moments to the Yankees for more than 20 years.

This was Schlittler, in a dazzling display of power and poise, doing to the Red Sox what a kid named Josh Beckett did to the Yankees in Game 6 of the 2003 World Series at the old Stadium, as dominant a beating from a starter as the Yankees had ever seen in October. This was Cliff Lee of the Rangers striking out 13 against the Yankees in Game 3 of the 2010 ALCS. A Yankee starter threw the shutout innings in a win-or-go-home game the way Dallas Keuchel did that to

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