Yankees' Cam Schlittler allows 1 run in 4-2 win over Red Sox, outmatching Payton Tolle's 11 strikeouts

Boston Red Sox pitcher Payton Tolle racked up 11 strikeouts, but Cam Schlittler allowed only one run over eight innings to lead the New York Yankees to a 4-2 win on Thursday at Fenway Park.

Schlittler — a Walpole, Massachusetts native — grew up a Red Sox fan and was excited to pitch in Boston. However, he and his family had received threats leading up to his Fenway Park debut. The right-hander said that he regarded the threats more as trolling and didn’t believe it was necessary to get police involved.

If the threats were any sort of distraction, Schlittler didn’t demonstrate that on Thursday. Perhaps that noise provided motivation. Continuing the outstanding start to his season, he gave up four hits with five strikeouts. In his six starts thus far, he has allowed no runs in three of them while giving up three runs in two others.

Schlittler allowed an unearned run in the second inning when Trevor Story reached base on an error by Yankees third baseman Amed Rosario. He was driven in on an RBI double by Marcelo Mayer. The earned run Schlittler gave up came on Carlos Narváez’s home run in the fifth, his first of the season.

For the Red Sox, Tolle struck out the side to begin the game and five of the first six Yankees hitters he faced. But Jazz Chisholm Jr. broke through to tie the score at 1-1 with a fifth-inning home run. He reached low and inside to tag a 95 mph fastball, which landed just inside the Pesky Pole in right field.

Making his first major-league start of the season, Tolle allowed one run and three hits with one walk to go with his 11 strikeouts. In three appearances for Triple-A Worcester, he compiled a 3.00 ERA with 19 strikeouts in 15 innings.