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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Rookie right-hander Cam Schlittler struck out 12 in eight dominant innings and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox<\/a> 4-0 on Thursday night to win their AL Wild Card Series in a deciding third game.<\/p>\n

Taking his place in Yankees-Red Sox rivalry lore, the 24-year-old Schlittler overpowered Boston with 100 mph heat in his 15th major league start and pitched New York into a best-of-five Division Series against AL East champion Toronto beginning Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA star is born tonight. He\u2019s a special kid, man,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cHe is not afraid. He expects this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amed Rosario and Anthony Volpe each had an RBI single in a four-run fourth as New York became the first team to lose the opener of a best-of-three Wild Card Series and come back to advance since Major League Baseball expanded the first round of the playoffs in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like the most pressure-packed game I\u2019ve ever experienced \u2014 World Series, clinching games, whatever,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

Schlittler, who debuted in the majors July 9, grew up a Red Sox fan in Walpole, Massachusetts \u2014 but has said several times he wanted to play for the Yankees. He had faced Boston only once before, as a freshman at Northeastern in a 2020 spring training exhibition. <\/p>\n

Schlittler said he spoke about the moment Wednesday with Yankees great Andy Pettitte, a five-time World Series champion and winner of a record 19 postseason games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up and I was locked in, so I knew exactly what I needed to do to go out there, especially against my hometown team,\u201d Schlittler said.<\/p>\n

He outpitched Connelly Early, a 23-year-old left-hander who debuted on Sept. 9 and became Boston\u2019s youngest postseason starting pitcher since 21-year-old Babe Ruth in 1916.<\/p>\n

Schlittler struck out two more than any other Yankees pitcher had in his postseason debut, allowing just five singles and walking none. He threw 11 pitches 100 mph or faster \u2014 including six in the first inning, one more than all Yankees pitchers had combined for previously since pitch tracking started in 2008.<\/p>\n

Schlittler threw 75 of 107 pitches for strikes, starting 22 of 29 batters with strikes and topping out at 100.8 mph. David Bednar worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth as the Red Sox failed to advance a runner past second base.<\/p>\n

Bucky Dent threw out the ceremonial first pitch on the 47th anniversary of his go-ahead, three-run homer for New York at Fenway Park in an AL East tiebreaker game, and the Yankees went on to vanquish their longtime rivals the way they often used to.<\/p>\n

New York, which arrived packed for a late-night flight to Toronto, won its second straight after losing eight of nine postseason meetings with Boston dating to 2004 and edged ahead 14-13 in postseason games between the teams. The Red Sox cost themselves in the fourth with a defense that committed a big league-high 116 errors during the regular season.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s rally began when Cody Bellinger hit a soft fly into the triangle between center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela, right fielder Wilyer Abreu and second baseman Romy Gonz\u00e1lez. The ball fell just in front of Rafaela, 234 feet from home plate, as Bellinger hustled into second with a double.<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton walked on a full count and with one out Rosario grounded a single into left, just past diving shortstop Trevor Story, to drive in Bellinger with the first run.<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u2019s single loaded the bases, and Volpe hit a grounder just past Gonz\u00e1lez, who had been shifted toward second, and into right for an RBI single and a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Austin Wells hit a potential double-play grounder that first baseman Nathaniel Lowe tried to backhand on an in-between hop. The ball glanced off his glove and into shallow right field for an error as two runs scored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t play defense,\u201d Boston manager Alex Cora said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t hit the ball hard, but they found holes and it happened fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon made the defensive play of the game when he caught Jarren Duran\u2019s eighth-inning foul pop and somersaulted into Boston\u2019s dugout, then emerged smiling and apparently unhurt.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Luis Gil (4-1, 3.32 ERA) or RHP Will Warren (9-8, 4.44) will likely start the Division Series opener Saturday for the Yankees at Toronto, which is expected to go with RHP Kevin Gausman (10-11, 3.59) or RHP Shane Bieber (4-2, 3.57).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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