By Brendan Kuty, Jen McCaffrey and Chris Kirschner
NEW YORK — One by one, the New York Yankees hurdled over their dugout railing. As the sold-out crowd of nearly 50,000 sang along every word to Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” the players high-fived and hugged — a muted on-field celebration immediately after a 4-0 victory over the rival Boston Red Sox in a do-or-die Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series. A wild, champagne-soaked party awaited them in their clubhouse, where they would cheer their rookie hero, Cam Schlittler, who provided a stunning eight scoreless innings and 12 strikeouts to propel his club into a matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL Division Series. The Red Sox, meanwhile, were left to pick up the pieces of their season after they stuck too long with their rookie starter Connelly Early, and their defense betrayed them in a four-run fourth inning.
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