NEW YORK — His clothes soggy with champagne and beer, Cam Schlittler stood in a wide, empty hallway in the bowels of Yankee Stadium. From the clubhouse, his teammates called for him to pose for a picture with them. They wanted to toast his historic night — eight shutout innings and 12 strikeouts to dominate the rival Boston Red Sox, 4-0, in an elimination Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series. But Schlittler needed one more minute.
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The 24-year-old wanted to talk longer with Matt Hyde, the Yankees’ Northeast area scout, who followed him through his three years at Northeastern University and urged the organization to select him in the seventh round of the draft in 2022.
Back then, Hyde couldn’t have known Schlittler would rescue the Yankees’ season on Thursday night, dazzling Red Sox hitters with 98 mph fastballs and lasting 107 pitches — the most he’d ever thrown.
Hyde couldn’t have known that Schlittler would take just two months in the majors to prove to the Yankees they could trust him in the playoffs, or that Schlittler would need on
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