While the Blue Jays starting pitcher in Game 4 is still up in the air, Aaron Boone and the Yankees immediately knew that Cam Schlittler, the 24-year old rookie, would be on the mound Thursday. Schlittler, who made his MLB debut back in July, had a tremendous postseason debut against the Red Sox last week so he's really making a name for himself early in his career.
One person who doesn't seem thrilled about Schlittler's name is FS1's David Ortiz. During the postgame show following New York's Game 3 win over the Blue Jays, Ortiz challenged Kevin Burkhardt, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter to say his name and then revealed a surprising historical comparison that you rarely hear on baseball programming.
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"Sound like Hitler," said Ortiz before laughing. "Cam I'm going Cam. I'm going Cam. Don't want to get in trouble."
His co-hosts all had varying reactions. Burkhardt insisted he stick to "Cam," while Rodriguez cracked up with Big Papi and Jeter just looked like wanted to leave.
Tough Schlitt 😤 pic.twitter.com/H3vWayqUuf
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Either way, it's probably best that Ortiz keeps things on a first name basis for FS1's coverage of Game 4.
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