The Yankee Stadium crowd was chanting “M-V-P” on an electric night in The Bronx. 

Matt Hyde, Yankees scout extraordinaire, who signed both Game 1 standouts/Yankee surprise superstars — Cam Schlittler, the target of the chants, and Ben Rice — was cheering at home in Canton, Mass., too. 

“The two Massachusetts boys showed up,” crowed Hyde, the New England area Yankees scout whose tandem of late-round draft signees may never be duplicated. 

Schlittler came to the Yankees in Round 7, Rice in Round 12. They are undeniably two superstars of the game now.