Aaron Judge Reacts to Cam Schlittler's Historic Performance During Postgame Celebration

Aaron Judge is the captain of the New York Yankees. He's the sixteenth captain in Yankees history and undoubtedly their best player. While Judge hasn't had his best performances during the postseason throughout his 10-year-career, he continues to play at an MVP level year-after-year in the regular season.

Another Yankees player, however, did have the best performance of their career in the postseason. On Thursday night, in a win-or-go-home, American League Wild Card Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox, Cam Schlittler put his best foot forward. With a capacity crowd of 48,883 inside Yankee Stadium, standing and cheering on their feet nearly all night, rookie pitcher, Schlittler pitched the game of his life.

Taking the mound for the first time ever in the postseason, Schlitter not only helped his team advance to the AL Division Series, he made MLB postseason history. Schlittler, at just 24 years old, with just 73 MLB innings under his belt, became the first pitcher in MLB postseason history to have 12 strikeouts, zero walks, while pitching at least eight innings.

Aaron Judge Recognizes Cam Schlittler's Historic Performance

Judge, despite his 0-for-3 performance in Game 3, had nothing but complimentary things to say about Schlittler during his postgame interview. Judge remained composed for his interview despite Austin Wells dumping champagne on Judge's head halfway through the interview with YES Network's Meredith Marakovits.

"He did something real special," Judge said.