The Toronto Blue Jays didn't expect much from pitcher Trey Yesavage at the start of the 2025 MLB season. Sure, some thought he was a back-end top-100 prospect, but he had yet to pitch a single inning in the minors. Merely surviving in A-ball would have been a successful year.

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Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider was so impressed with Trey Yesavage's performance against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series that he could only think one of superlative to describe it.

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So Cory Riordan jogged out to the mound to try to calm down the Toronto Blue Jays’ prized prospect. When he arrived, he was shocked by what he heard. Before Riordan could utter a word to what he feared might be a flustered 21-year-old,

Nobody in the Blue Jays’ lineup for Game 5 of the World Series, an emphatic 6-1 thumping of the Dodgers, was alive in 1993.

The final line for Yesavage read seven innings, three hits, one run, zero walks and 12 strikeouts. With those 12 strikeouts, Yesavage set the MLB record for most strikeouts by a rookie in a World Series game. Along with that, Yesavage is the first rookie with 10-plus strikeouts in a World Series game since 1958.

Of course, there was also the superstar, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., with a home run right after Schneider. It was the first time in history that a team hit back-to-back home runs to start a World Series game. Snell had never given up two first-inning home runs in his career previously, so it was a double dose of history.

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