{"id":208210,"date":"2025-10-12T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:02:07","slug":"blue-jays-name-trey-yesavage-as-game-2-starter-vs-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208210\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays name Trey Yesavage as Game 2 starter vs. Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"9a9747c1-f45d-4999-896d-3979471f2ef5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/trey-yesavage\/9a9747c1-f45d-4999-896d-3979471f2ef5\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trey Yesavage<\/a> is set to take the stage once more at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie will start Game 2 of the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>&#8216; American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He will take the ball for the second time in this year&#8217;s playoffs, following a historic outing against the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the ALDS.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old set the franchise playoff record with 11 strikeouts in just his fourth career start, earning the victory over 5.1 dominant no-hit innings. He was lifted with a 12-0 lead to a standing ovation before the Blue Jays hung on for a 13-7 win.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s 20th overall pick in 2024 notably skyrocketed through its minor-league system this year, reaching the majors in September after starting the season in low-A Dunedin and hitting every stop along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Yesavage made his major-league debut on Sept. 15 against the Tampa Bay Rays. He went on to make three regular-season starts after recording 160 strikeouts over 98 innings in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>After keeping the Bronx Bombers in check, he will now be tasked with shutting down the Mariners&#8217; heavy hitters in Cal Raleigh, Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suarez.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is set for Monday in Toronto at 5:03 p.m. ET \/ 2:03 p.m. PT, with live coverage on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Yesavage is set to take the stage once more at Rogers Centre. The rookie will start Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-208210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}