A few months before Kam Schlittler made the biggest beginning of his life, Yankees' The right -hand newcomer was in his native New England in the evening to kill.
On May 21, a 24-year-old football player, playing for the double patriots of the Somerset, had just completed an early working day on the road, turning six senseless taxes against the New Hampshire Fisher, a branch of Blue Jays, after a start at 11:08.
In need of something, which is connected with Boston a little more than an hour, Schlitter called in favor: he asked for tickets for the game of this night between Red Sox and Mets in Fenway Park.
Matt Hyde, North -Eastern intelligence officer Yankees, who found Schlittler In the secondary school of Walpol in Massachusetts, before he starred in the north -east, a clutch appeared, providing several plugs for the jug and his friends.
“I love Boston. Boston is that I value very much, ”said Daily News Schlittler, a children's fan of Red Sox, indicating that he had in mind only the city. “So, for me it was just a good opportunity to get into the city after a good victory.”
But Hyde said that Schlittler's request was more than just enjoying at night with his boys in his hometown. Rather, Hyde believes that the game in Fenway served as an informal report on intelligence, that for Schlittler it was possible to see how he developed with his MLB debut – without the knowledge of the jug – less than two months later.
“He just wanted to go and become a fan in Fenway and see how large leagues look,” Hyde said. “Despite the fact that he had the experience of the major league camp, and he was next to our guys, I think it was in order to experience the atmosphere, the environment. This was shown by Kam Schlittler.
“He has a really great thinking of the desire to be better and not think that he has arrived.”
Schlittler will tell you differently, but he arrived on Thursday at the Yankee stadium, Twirling Eight Score Score Inding 3 A series of wild cards against anyone but competing Red Sox. The right that was present at the Boston championship in 2004 with his father, John, and then gravitated to Clay Bhaholts, Xander Bogurtsu and Chris, added 12 outs in his debut after the season, the most of the young man Yankee in the play -offf.
Schlittler, who grew about 30 minutes from Boston and first encountered Red Sox during the 2020 spring training exhibition game as a north -east freshman, also did not pass the dough. He also did not allow the runner to reach the third, as the Yankees went to victory with a score of 4: 0, their reward for the fact that they believed in the faith and season in the hands of a newcomer.
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“We needed to be perfect tonight because it was perfect,” said the skipper Red Sox Alex Kora after 15 Schlittler.tour Higher League Start.
“What a performance,” said Aaron Bun, but in the Yankees club there was no surprise. Not from the manager, neither coaches, nor teammates.
And, of course, not from Schlittler, who radiated confidence since he debuted on July 9.
“I woke up, and I was locked,” Schlittler said, having earned the player Yankees in the game belt and champagne, who scored the injured ace, Herrit Cole. “I knew for sure what I had to do there, especially against my team of my hometown. As I said Andy [Pettitte] Yesterday I did not allow them to beat me. I was just self -confident in this fact.
Other Yankees noticed laser focus and balance of Schlittler on Thursday, and in the days that preceded his starting start.
“He was not afraid of the moment,” said Matt Blake coach. “He expected to go there and succeed, and he supported him.”
“There are different paths to greatness, but this guy came up and delivered it right away,” Cole added. “He has it ThisI don't know the field for sure This is. It is difficult to determine ThisField but he has This.
According to his father, Schlittler had impenetrable self -control from the age of 14 or 15.
“He was always quite recruited,” said the proud pope, the chief of police in Nidham, Massachusetts, after he and his wife Kristina watched how their son became the first player in the history of the Higher League, who threw at least eight innings. And Write down at least 12 outs without going through the dough in the play in the play -off.
Schlittler did not always have his heater, since his fastball was averaged in the mid-90s during his first camp in the Higher League this spring. But after it diluted in winter -He scored 15 pounds-and, having built his hand in the spring, he easily began to get to the highest 90s, when he made his way from Double-a to Triple-a to major.
Having dominated the lists of the leaders of the Yankee In the first 14 initial seasons – he had 2.96 era on this segment – Schlitter reached 100 miles per hour 11 times on Thursday.
His fastball exceeded 100.8 miles per hour, and his 107tour And the last step was a carrying lifter of 98.4 miles per hour.
“This is light gas,” said Cole. “As if he does not step at 98. He just clicks there.”
It helps that the Schlittler has the body of Pitcher, as it costs 6-6 in 225 pounds.
“You see the height. You see the frame. You see what he can do with baseball, and you seem to dream about it, ”said Aaron Jaj, who knows something about getting maximum return on a large assembly. “Kam is one of one.”
With adrenaline, undoubtedly, nourishes part of the speed of Schlittler, also a little tweeted from people home.
Despite the fact that Christina said that people in Walpol were mostly cheerful to her son when he performs, Schlittler said that it was “personally” for me to finish the Red Sox season on Thursday, since “people from Boston could say a lot before the game.”
“I will not go into this,” Schlittler continued, “but there is a line, and I think that they crossed it a little. I am a competitor, and I'm going to go there and make sure that I closed them. ”
Then Schlittler showed some understanding, since he knows that Boston fans can be “aggressive” in his efforts to “get under the skin of people”. In the end, he was once one of them, and he still clearly embodies their spirit after he triumphantly publishes “drink dirty water” a few hours after his star start.
But the next time, when some massades will try to follow him, he recommends that they choose a different goal. Thanks to the dying materials and thinking, which can withstand pressure after the Bronx season, he does not need additional motivation.
“You know, Boston fans, this is how it is,” said Schlittler. “They just chose the wrong guy to do this, and not that team to do it.”
