{"id":272724,"date":"2026-06-20T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:15:12","slug":"cam-schlittler-exposes-line-crossing-red-sox-fan-after-another-dominant-yankees-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272724\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Schlittler exposes line-crossing Red Sox fan after another dominant Yankees start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cam Schlittler struck out 13 Reds hitters<\/a> but still saved his best fastball for exposing an online troll.<\/p>\n

In an appropriately savage move, the Yankees ace revealed Friday night a taste of the line-crossing hate that athletes face when he published unfiltered to his Instagram story the messages sent to him by a Red Sox fan using the handle \u201cKyle_Lynch11.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlittler captioned the post \u201crent free\u201d while including two crying laughing emojis.<\/p>\n

Cam Schlittler\u2019s response to a trolling Red Sox fan. @camschlittler_\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The verbal attacks started before Schlittler\u2019s historic start against the Red Sox in the playoffs last season and continued through his Friday night masterpiece.<\/p>\n

A patient Schlittler only replied once in the thread, writing \u201cstop gazing lil bro\u201d at 1:14 p.m. Friday, roughly six hours before his first pitch at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

The most common message was calling Schlittler a \u201cp\u2014y.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fan wrongly predicted the \u201cReds are gonna light u up tnite\u201d before Schlittler struck out 13 in six scoreless innings and lowered his ERA to a Whitey Ford-like 1.64.<\/p>\n

The trolling started Oct. 3, 2025, when the fan messaged Schilittler to \u201cwait till we got our full squad u clown.\u201d The thought was that \u201cRoman (Anthony) will own u.\u201d<\/p>\n

This prediction did not ring true. @camschlittler_\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The fan was angry that Schlittler \u2013 a Walpole, Mass. native who grew up as a Red Sox fan \u2013 was pitching for the Yankees. As if he had a choice in where he was drafted and developed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever forget where u came from,\u201d one message read.<\/p>\n

Schlitter instead made sure Red Sox fans never forget him with his historical MLB playoff debut, when he struck out 12 in eight scoreless innings to clinch the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Wild Card Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cam Schlittler dominated the Reds on Friday. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Schlittler is the American League Cy Young betting favorite<\/a> in just his second season and has seemed to especially enjoy feasting on the Red Sox and their fans. Now we have a taste of why.<\/p>\n

This one particular fan\u2019s message thread didn\u2019t appear to send any of the \u201cdeath threats\u201d that Schlittler previously told The Post he and his family \u2013 including a father who is a police chief in Massachusetts \u2013 have been besieged by as part of a rivalry-gone-wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Schlittler struck out 13 Reds hitters but still saved his best fastball for exposing an online troll.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3472,32358,32318,20,9,11,10,321,319,6015],"class_list":["post-272724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-fans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}