Cam Schlittler continues agitating Red Sox fans after Yankees extend AL Wild Card lead

On Wednesday night, the New York Yankees extended their lead in the AL Wild Card picture with a series victory over the LA Angels. Cam Schlittler allowed just one run on two hits over eight sterling innings and the Yankees ripped off five runs in the top of the 10th to win a 6-3 extra inning affair.

They have a 9.5-game advantage in the top ALWC spot. They are six games ahead of the Red Sox (counting the tiebreaker) after Boston lost its series to the Mariners. They trail the Rays by just 3.5 games for the AL East lead after the Mets took care of business in Tampa.

But nothing was more satisfying than what Schlittler did to agitate Red Sox fans after he struck out nine batters and improved his case to win the AL Cy Young award.

Lost in all the weekend Yankees-Red Sox drama was the fallout from Monday's episode of the Section 10 podcast. You might know it, you might not. If you're among the latter, congratulations. Your brain has remained uncontaminated for this long.

The Red Sox-based podcast, hosted by professional troll Jared Carrabis and his gaggle of minions who have catchphrases at the ready, recapped the New York-Boston weekend series that saw the Yanks take three of four. There was some whining (as is the standard when you're talking about a podcast hosted by fans), but there was also some reflection. It was a bad series for the Sox, regardless of the replay review of Ceddanne Rafaela's catch.

And then, midway through the episode, a woman named Rusey appeared. She almost immediately fired shots at Schlittler, calling him ugly and claiming that he hasn't done "jack sh-t" against the Red Sox, despite his 0.56 ERA against Boston dating back to last year and the fact he eliminated them from the 2025 postseason. She actually tried to make the argument Patrick Sandoval was better than him last Friday night, which is objectively false. He came close, but he wasn't.

Schlittler quickly caught wind of the video that was clipped and disseminated across social media, and allegedly issued a controversial response that was since deleted (per social media sleuths). Schlittler fired right back at Rusey, insulting her looks as well as her sunglasses.

Cam Schlittler continues to own Red Sox fans as Yankees create distance in AL Wild Card picture

That became an exhausting talking point on social media once more people caught wind of it, and we had ourselves a "pot calling the kettle black" situation. Oh ... Red Sox fans are all of a sudden trying to take the high road over a cheap-shot insult when that's their fanbase's entire identity? They don't have one of the most parasocial and toxic fanbases out there? That's news to us!

Was Schlittler's comment appropriate? No, it wasn't. We'll admit that. In fact, he shouldn't be responding (or even hearing) any of this nonsense. This is nothing but fan service — antagonistic barstool chatter that was never meant for the mainstream. But this is life now. This is what content has become. Over the last few years, we've seen how players have started to combat it (for better or worse).

Since the day he debuted for the Yankees, Schlittler's been endlessly harassed by Red Sox fans, who have threatened his family and spent countless hours coming after him online. If this is the game they want to play, then they can't expect Schlittler to sit there and take it. How could you expect anybody to do that?

After Wednesday's win, Schlittler fired up Twitter and issued a response to Rusey and Red Sox fans with a much more harmless picture of an emoji with oversized glasses. Have to admit, this is in much better taste.

Call Schlittler terminally online. Call it pathetic that the Yankees use Carrabis clips to motivate him before his starts. But until the Red Sox figure out a way to get the upper hand over the star pitcher, there is no discussion. There is no back and forth. This is your life now.

If Schlittler has another successful postseason start against the Red Sox and wins the Cy Young at the end of the year, Red Sox fans will be stuck in an endless maze, running around in circles, attempting every last stunt to escape. And it'll be to no avail. We're seeing the preview of it right now as they live and die by everything the 25-year-old says and does. Think it can't get worse? It always can.

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