What the U.S. Media is saying about Trey Yesavage, Toronto Blue Jays on the verge of World Series title
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The Toronto Blue Jays are on the verge of winning their first World Series title in over 30 years after a historic night at Dodger Stadium in game 5 of the World Series.
Toronto's 6-1 win over the Dodgers was anchored by Trey Yesavage, who set a rookie Fall Classic record with 12 strikeouts, along with back-to-back leadoff homers by Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. a first in World Series history.
The series now stands 3-2 Blue Jays and shifts back to Rogers Centre for Game 6, where Toronto could potentially hoist the Commissioner's Trophy once again for the first time since 1993. Toronto has never lost a World Series Game 6.
Here's what some of the U.S. media are saying about Trey Yesavage and the game:
Among the bright lights of Los Angeles, Yesavage shone the brightest Wednesday night.
He retired each one of the Dodgers star lineup at least once through five innings and did not walk a single batter.
Hall of famer Derek Jeter recalled Yesavage's performance in Game 2 of the ALDS, where he struck out 11 batters in New York, to frame his Game 5 showing.
«I thought it was impressive with what he did against the Yankees,» Jeter, who played for New York over 20 seasons, said to his MLB on Fox co-panelists after the game.
«This was even more impressive. Doing it in the World Series. On this stage. He's got poise, he's got confidence, but on top of all of that, he has great stuff. Like, he is nasty.»
Jeter went on to say the Dodgers looked «completely fooled» by the rookie pitcher's unusually high arm angle, which limited the highest payroll in baseball to just one run and four hits.
«Coming into this series...the storyline was the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching against the Jays. Well it's been the Jays' pitching that has stepped up and they've been the story up until this point.»
Trey Yesavage's ascent from Rookie A-Ball to the World Series
Yesavage started his 2025 season with Toronto's affiliate single-A Dunedin Blue Jays.
Since then, he's worked his way to the top of the organization and become the first pitcher ever in the major leagues to start multiple World Series games within his first eight career games, according to the MLB.
Alex Rodriguez, who played for the Yankees for 13 years, said he was demoted to the minor leagues five times in one season and said the difference between A-ball and the big leagues is like the »Atlantic ocean.»
«It's just a different level,» he said on the MLB on Fox panel. «The adjustment is just so big...and I don't think we're doing a good enough (job) articulating how hard it is. But trust me when I tell you, to be at this level in the World Series is nothing less than a miraculous performance.»
Former World Series champion pitcher and MLB Network analyst Jake Peavy: 'Just Wow'
Ten of Yesavage's 12 strikeouts came within the first five innings.
He's only the second pitcher in World Series history to record 10 Ks over five frames.
Sandy Koufax, who was in the stands during Wednesday's game, previously set the record for the Dodgers in Game 1 in 1963.
«Just wow,» Jake Peavy, former World Series champion pitcher and MLB Network analyst, said of Yesavage's performance.
«To watch such a young guy, 22, to have more post-season starts now, 5, than Triple-A starts, to come in with this kind of poise under this kind of pressure, deliver time and time again. We saw (him) versus the Yankees and knew he was special. Tonight, he was even more special.»
Los Angeles Dodgers on the brink of elimination after devastating Game 5 loss in the World Series
The Dodgers were the favourites heading into the World Series. But the odds have shifted following Toronto's win Wednesday night.
Toronto now enters Game 6 as the -240 betting favourites to the Dodgers +198 on FanDuel.
And, as Bill Plaschke writes for the Los Angeles Times, watching the World Series slowly slip away from the Dodgers this post-season is «unfathomable.»
«The richest team in baseball is splitting apart at the seams, tearing under stress, fraying beyond recognition, collecting on the floor of the 2025 baseball season in heaping piles of disappointment.
«Soon, the supposedly greatest collection of players in Dodgers history could be history."
Disappearing Dodgers backed to the brink of disaster after World Series Game 5 loss
Blue Jays Kevin Gausman starts against the Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 6 for all the marbles on Friday night at Rogers Centre.
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