By JAKE FENNNER, US SPORTS WRITER Published: 03.13 GMT, October 30. 2025 | Updated: 04:01 GMT, 30 October 2025
Trey Yesavage has the most interesting story in this World Series. Now there’s another chapter to this story. The Pennsylvanian began his 2025 year in Low-A baseball before rapidly progressing through Double-A, Triple-A and High-A. Finally making his MLB debut last September. The 22 year old set a record of 12 strikeouts, which is the most ever by a first-year player in the Fall Classic. Yesavage also tied with Tom Seaver and Walter Johnson on the list of most strikeouts. Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax Carl Erskine and Howard Ehmke are the only players to have more strikeouts than Yesavage. His shift ended at 104 pitches of which 71 were strikes. His teammates and manager John Schneider embraced him in the dugout as he held back the bats from Shohei Ahtani, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy after allowing three hits and just one earned run. Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage has set a World Series record for most strikeouts for a rookie. Yesavage walked no Dodgers and struck out 12 in a victory of 6-1 on Wednesday. Sarah Langs from MLB statistics says this is a record for all World Series pitching. Blue Jays won this game literally from the very first pitch. Yesavage’s only blemish came in the bottom third inning, when Enrique ‘Kike’ Hernandez homered. But it was all Toronto after that. Ernie Clement, who scored Daulton Vassho with a sac-fly, added Addison Barger to the scoreboard on a wild-pitch, Bo Bichette brought Andres Gimenez home with a simple, and Isiahkiner Falefa rounded out the 6-1 final. Kevin Gausman will start the game for the Blue Jays, while Yoshinobu Yammoto will be the Dodgers’ starter.
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Blue Jays’ rookie pitcher becomes the first ever World Series pitcher as they take a 3-2 lead against Dodgers before returning to Toronto
2025-10-30 04:01:49
