Aaron Boone yanked the rookie starter Cam Schlittler after five innings and just 86 pitches. It immediately backfired in the Yankees’ 4-1 loss.

Schlittler struck out Simpson, the Rays' leadoff man, looking at a 97-mph fastball on the inside corner to start a 1-2-3, 11-pitch bottom half and he made it six-up, six-down with an 11-pitch second, striking out Feduccia swinging at a 99-mph fastball to end the inning. Schlittler was at just 66 pitches through six.

Rookie right-hander Cam Schlittler was the Yankees' starter against the Rays on Wednesday night at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.

Cam Schlittler struck out eight and allowed just one hit over 6 2/3 scoreless innings, Giancarlo Stanton and Austin Wells hit back-to-back homers in the 10th inning and the New York Yankees rallied to a 6-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays at Steinbrenner Field.

Cam Schlittler was throwing a perfect game through six innings Wednesday night, the longest bid by a New York Yankees rookie in nearly 60 years. The 24-year-old right-hander retired the first 18 Rays he faced before Chandler Simpson led off the seventh with a single to right.

The New York Yankees have three of their top pitching prospects in the starting rotation in Double-A Somerset.

New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones has made waves in the minors this season. Despite being the lowest-ranked of the Yankees' top-100 prospects, Jones is ge