Re-living Cam Schlittler’s Historic Performance

Re-living Cam Schlittler's Historic Performance
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  1. Easily a top five Yankees postseason pitching performance that I have seen in my lifetime, especially with raised stakes like an elimination game.

  4. Ice cold glare out there like Dexter carving em up all night, did he even sweat? games like last night earn you a Yankee nickname in my book. I nominate Killer Cam, The Boston Butcher. Long may he wear pinstripes.

  5. We haven’t seen a “drag your nuts across their face cause fuck em” performance against the Red Sox in god knows how long. What a night. Still absolutely buzzing.

    Kid had his coming out party and is just getting started.

  8. What a performance! One for the ages, as they say. Throwing gas til the last pitch.

  9. Been watching this team religiously for 30 years this year and I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever really seen anything quite like what Cam did last night. The situation he was in as a rookie pitcher and how he showed up is just unfathomable. The McMahon catch really sealed it for me as one of my favorite Yankee games ever. Watching something in real time that you just know you’re going to remember for the rest of your life, what an experience.

  10. I remember his debut and being like “Hmmm…he’s a rookie. I wonder how he’ll do?,” and then he threw more 100 mph pitches in that first game than the rest of the team combined and I was like “Holy shit, how have I never heard of this kid before?”

  14. I’m 65. I’ve seen perfect games, walk off home runs. Mantle, Guidry, the Core Four. I was there in 1969 when John Ellis hit an inside the park homer in his first game in the bigs.

    Last night was as big, if not bigger. A SEVEN PITCH EIGHTH INNING, and McMahon’s ridiculous catch.

    Unforgettable night.

  16. Bellinger limping in to check on McMahon with that goofy ass smile kills me every time

  17. The fact that he is likely going to be our #4 starter next year is insane. The Cole – Fried – Rodon – Schlittler – Gil rotation is going to hit like crack.

  18. I’ve watched so many flamethrowers hit Triple digits but this kids motion looks effortless. 100 mph comes out of his hand so easily.

  20. I’m not gay but I want to live in a log cabin in the woods with Cam Schlittler. We won’t ever have sex, but there will be a simmering erotic undercurrent as I stand in the kitchen window watching him tighten his ass as he chops wood, shirtless, sweat pouring off his body.

    I’ll run upstairs and masturbate, the entire time forcing myself to think of women while my thoughts drift back to Cam. I won’t be able to climax and I’ll eventually go back downstairs, angry. Sometimes we will look across the table and catch each other’s eyes, and in that second, anything is possible, but we both deny ourselves and go back to what we were doing. One day one of us will die, and the other will bury him outside the log cabin. Then he’ll go inside, pen a brief missive to his departed friend, and commit suicide, never able to deal with life without his one true platonic love.

  21. Ks 3, 5 and 6 were the best.

    101 MPH sinker taken for strike three starting inside at the knees and running over the plate, 93 MPH slider (yeah I know its called a cutter but that moves like a slider)starting over the plate and running just off the inside corner. You can tell how those pitches play off each other. As a batter what do you do with that?

    Then 99 MPH Bartolo classic, two seamer that starts outside and runs over to just touch the strike zone.

  24. I think that’s the greatest yankee pitching performance I’ve ever seen. Just pure dominance.

  25. Ya know everyone’s been hating on Boone all year but credit where it’s due, he called this game perfectly.

    “He’s throwing strikes” after the 7th and sending Cam back out in the 8th is such a Boone move. And pulling him for Bednar with a big smile and “that’s it” is also such a Boone move.

    If we win the WS this year it’ll be with plenty of these types of Boone calls, and I honestly think they’ll be a big part of why we win

  27. Yankees have the best starting pitchers but it’s close. Mariners, Phillies, Dodgers are also good. Pitching wins world series. Astros no hitter, Strasburg in 19, eovaldi in 18/23, walker Buehler last year.

  28. This is when I like to look at my minor league posts about a prospect. What did I say and do I have egg on my face now for saying it?

    This year, I brought up the possibility of him being trade bait a few times. Whoops. But at least I justified that awfulness by saying I was just following the Yankees pattern of trading pitchers as soon as they show life in Double-A. Grade for those takes: F

    My first ever post about him was mundane. The typical bio crap (“6’6’ kid from Northeastern”). Blah. I should have predicted he would dominate the Red Sox someday.

    This year. I did mention it would be criminal to leave him off the Top 100 in the midseason update. So there’s that.

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    Regardless, this is why prospects are tough to get a read on. His explosion was hard to see happening beyond the fact he was big and kids can and do (obviously) add velocity as they gain strength and make adjustments. But just think of all the tall kids who were sitting 92-94 initially who never got better. Can’t think of any? Exactly. They tend to die quickly.

    Anyway, what a freaking performance. And I am sure Cora was saying “Let’s just get this to their bullpen” all night….he kept waiting and waiting and waiting.

  29. I could not believe what I was watching. In the hours leading up to the game I couldn’t get Luis Severino’s intro to the postseason in 2017 out of my mind. To pitch like that, with what was on the line, as a ROOKIE. No words.

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