LOS ANGELES — Trey Yesavage set a World Collection rookie file with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Recreation 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday evening that moved them inside one win of their first championship since 1993.
Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered on Blake Snell’s first and third pitches, the primary consecutive homers to begin a Collection recreation.
Yesavage, a precocious 22-year-old right-hander who began his season final April pitching earlier than 327 followers in Class A, took over from there.
With a sinking splitter, spinning slider and overpowering fastball that quieted LA bats and a crowd of 52,175, he broke the prior rookie file of 11 strikeouts set by Don Newcombe for the Dodgers in a 1-0 loss to the New York Yankees within the 1949 opener. Getting six Ok’s every together with his splitter and slider, Yesavage grew to become the primary Collection pitcher with 12 strikeouts and no walks.
“Simply my perception,” he informed Fox when requested what made him so profitable in Recreation 5. “Believing in myself, in my protection, believing in (Alejandro Kirk) behind the plate and believing in God. And he regarded over me immediately.”
Yesavage allowed three hits over seven innings and his solely run when Enrique Hernández homered on a excessive fastball to trim the Dodgers’ deficit to 2-1 within the third.
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.