NEW YORK — Cam Schlittler knew he needed to pace himself, so instead of jogging to the mound to start each inning, he decided to walk. It was the only deviation from his routine on the best night of his career, and it allowed him to soak in the best sound of his career: the standing ovation the sellout crowd of 48,833 gave him as he headed out to begin the eighth inning.
“I wasn’t expecting that,” he said, after it was over and he’d bested his childhood favorite team, the Red Sox, 4–0, in Game 3 of the American League wild card series to send New York to the AL division series. “That was a great feeling. It gave me a bit more confidence to go out there and do my job.”
