Yesavage, Blue Jays dominate Dodgers in Game 5 of World Series

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Trey Yesavage sets World Series rookie grounds for strikeouts against LA Dodgers to forge 3-2 pb successful the best-of-seven finals.

Published On 30 Oct 2025

The Toronto Blue Jays moved wrong 1 triumph of their archetypal Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series rubric successful much than 3 decades connected Wednesday, riding a dazzling show from rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage and an explosive commencement astatine the sheet to a 6–1 triumph implicit the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The 22-year-old Yesavage was thing abbreviated of sensational, mounting a caller World Series rookie grounds with 12 strikeouts, breaking a people that had stood since 1949.

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The right-hander struck retired each Dodger successful the lineup astatine slightest erstwhile and constricted Los Angeles to 3 hits crossed 7 innings with zero walks, continuing a breakout season.

The Blue Jays made a imagination commencement arsenic Davis Schneider homered connected the precise archetypal transportation from Los Angeles starter Blake Snell, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr followed with different blast 2 pitches later.

It marked the archetypal clip successful World Series past that a squad opened a crippled with back-to-back location runs, portion Guerrero Jr tied the grounds for the second-most postseason homers successful MLB past with his eighth round-tripper.

Kike Hernandez enactment the Dodgers connected the scoreboard successful the third, blasting a solo changeable disconnected Yesavage to reignite the location assemblage with his archetypal homer of the postseason.

But Toronto rapidly responded successful the apical of the fourth, erstwhile Daulton Varsho tripled connected a liner to close aft a risky play by Teoscar Hernandez and past scored connected Ernie Clement’s sacrifice alert to reconstruct the two-run lead.

Snell laboured done the aboriginal harm and lasted into the seventh, throwing 116 pitches, the third-most of his career, earlier departing with 2 connected and 2 outs and aft throwing 2 chaotic pitches, the 2nd of which precocious Addison Barger to 3rd basal and walked Andres Gimenez.

Reliever Edgardo Henriquez inherited the jam and the inning unravelled arsenic helium threw a chaotic transportation to Guerrero Jr that allowed Barger to people and marque it 4–1. Bo Bichette followed with a azygous to close that brought successful Gimenez, extending Toronto’s pb to 5–1.

Toronto tacked connected different tally successful the eighth arsenic Ernie Clement singled, precocious to 2nd connected a chaotic transportation from Anthony Banda, and scored from 3rd connected a azygous from Isiah Kiner-Falefa to marque it 6–1, prompting boos from the Dodger Stadium crowd.

The Dodgers went softly successful the last 2 frames, with Shohei Ohtani lining retired with a runner connected archetypal basal to extremity the eighth inning, portion Mookie Betts flied out, and Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez struck retired successful the ninth.

Trey Yesavage and Shohei Ohtani successful action.

Dodgers successful hunt of answers

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts praised Yesavage but expressed vexation with missed opportunities and the team’s violative struggles.

“Giving up bases changes the lineup, and it affects the crippled going forward,” Roberts told reporters. “Blake pitched a heck of a shot game, but giving up bases and not converting outs came backmost to wound america contiguous … close now, we’re astatine elimination, and we’ve got to hitch the slate cleanable and find a mode to triumph crippled six.”

“We’re not doing a bully job. We person to marque adjustments, travel successful fresh, and compete. That’s each we tin do.”

On Yesavage’s outing, helium added: “A batch of poise. No panic. The mode helium performed, beauteous impressive.”

Blue Jays manager John Schneider besides lauded his rookie player.

“Historic stuff. His slider and divided were electric. Tonight helium was successful the zone, getting swing-and-miss,” helium said.

The Blue Jays instrumentality location with a 3–2 bid lead, starting Kevin Gausman against Yoshinobu Yamamoto – and Ohtani arsenic a probable reliever for the archetypal clip – successful a imaginable championship-clinching Game Six, their archetypal changeable astatine a World Series rubric since 1993.

“To springiness the shot to Kevin Gausman for Game 6 feels great,” Schneider added. “It’s different pugnacious matchup with Yamamoto, but this was a precise bully squad win.”