LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trey Yesavage set a World Collection Collection rookie document 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 that moved them inside one win of their first championship since 1993.
Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. linked on Blake Snell’s first and third pitches, the primary consecutive homers to begin a Collection sport.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage celebrates the tip on the seventh inning in Recreation 5 of baseball’s World Collection towards the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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Yesavage, a precocious 22-year-old right-hander who started 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 document 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 Ks every along with his splitter and slider, Yesavage grew to become the primary Collection pitcher with 12 strikeouts and no walks.
“I’m type of blown away by what he did,” Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider stated.
Toronto Blue Jays’ Davis Schneider (36) celebrates with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. after their back-to-back house runs in the course of the first inning in Recreation 5 of baseball’s World Collection towards the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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Yesavage allowed three hits over seven innings and his solely run when Kiké Hernández homered on a excessive fastball to trim the Dodgers’ deficit to 2-1 within the third.
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Seranthony Domínguez and Jeff Hoffman completed a four-hitter.
“When three of my pitches are within the strike zone, and even two, like a part of tonight, I imply, I’m in management,” Yesavage stated. “Simply keep within the strike zone and get forward.”
Toronto leads 3-2 within the best-of-seven matchup and may have an opportunity to dethrone the defending champions when the Collection resumes Friday evening at Rogers Centre. No workforce has received consecutive titles because the Yankees took three in a row from 1998-2000.
Yesavage debuted with the Blue Jays on Sept. 15, his fifth stage of baseball this 12 months. He went 1-0 in three regular-season begins and is 3-1 in 5 postseason outings.
Yesavage induced 23 swings and misses — most in a Collection sport since pitch monitoring began in 2008, another than San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum in 2010 Recreation 5.
“Clearly the stuff is unimaginable, however the maturity to go and deal with these moments is unbelievable. It was a particular factor to look at at present,” teammate Bo Bichette stated. “I believe he’s extremely assured, however you by no means hear it within the clubhouse, which I believe says one thing about him. He comes right here to work and attempt to assist us win. I can’t say sufficient good issues about his efficiency.”
Snell, a two-time Cy Younger Award winner, dropped to 0-2 within the Collection, permitting 5 runs, six hits and 4 walks over 6 2/3 innings.
Los Angeles supervisor Dave Roberts shook up his slumping batting order, dropping Mookie Betts as little as third for the primary time since 2021 and benching outfielder Andy Pages in favor of Alex Name. It didn’t spark an offense that’s hitting .202 within the Collection and has solo photographs on seven of its eight house runs. Los Angeles has scored simply 4 runs in its final 29 innings.
The Dodgers additionally threw 4 wild pitches in a span of two innings.
Davis Schneider, batting first solely as a result of common leadoff hitter George Springer obtained harm in Recreation 3, despatched Snell’s first pitch into the left-field bleachers. Guerrero hit the third into the Dodgers’ bullpen for his eighth house run of the postseason.
Davis Schneider mimics totally different stances in the course of the 12 months, together with Aaron Choose, Giancarlo Stanton, Bobby Witt Jr. and even the Dodgers’ Will Smith in the course of the World Collection. The part-time outfielder and second baseman was in an outdated stance of his from the minor leagues towards Snell.
Snell began with three fastballs, then prevented one other one for 22 consecutive pitches earlier than placing out Andres Giménez with a heater to finish the second.
Ernie Clement added a fourth-inning sacrifice fly for a 3-1 lead after proper fielder Teoscar Hernández got here up brief on a sliding catch try as Daulton Varsho’s drive bounced into the right-field nook for a leadoff triple.
One other run scored on a wild pitch within the seventh by Edgardo Henriquez, who then allowed Bichette’s RBI single. Isiah Kiner-Falefa added a run-scoring single within the eighth off Anthony Banda.
“I believe we simply need to be the hardest outs we are able to probably be,” Bichette stated. “We’re a workforce, man, and we’ll do something we are able to to win.”
Up subsequent
Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Toronto RHP Kevin Gausman begin Recreation 6 in a rematch of Recreation 2, which Los Angeles received 5-1. Yamamoto pitched a four-hitter for the primary World Collection full sport since 2015 and has pitched the primary consecutive postseason full video games since Curt Schilling had three in a row in 2001. Gausman allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings.
Recreation 6 might be in Toronto on Friday, with Recreation 7 — if obligatory — additionally in Toronto on Saturday.
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