{"id":235035,"date":"2025-10-23T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235035\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:32:11","slug":"blue-jays-trey-yesavage-to-start-game-1-of-world-series-vs-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235035\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays’ Trey Yesavage to start Game 1 of World Series vs. Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — Blue Jays<\/a> rookie Trey Yesavage<\/a> will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday against the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> and Blake Snell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesavage, who made his major league debut on Sept. 15, will be making his fourth postseason start, giving the 22-year-old more postseason starts than career regular-season outings (3).<\/p>\n

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Thursday he wasn’t ready to announce his Game 2 starter from among Kevin Gausman<\/a>, Max Scherzer<\/a> and Shane Bieber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Dodgers announced earlier this week<\/a> that Snell would start Game 1 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> will follow in Game 2.<\/p>\n

Selected 20th overall in last year’s amateur draft from East Carolina University, Yesavage began the season at Class A Dunedin, was promoted to High-A Vancouver on May 20, Double-A New Hampshire on June 12 and Triple-A Buffalo on Aug. 12.<\/p>\n

He was 1-0 with a 3.21 ERA in three starts in September, striking out 16 in 14 innings, helped by a devastating splitter, with seven walks.<\/p>\n

Yesavage beat the New York Yankees<\/a> with 5 1\/3 scoreless, hitless innings in Game 2 of the Division Series as he struck out 11, lost Game 2 of the AL Championship Series when he allowed five runs in four innings, then won Game 6 of the ALCS on Sunday when he gave up two runs in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

He will be the first rookie to start Game 1 of the World Series since 2006, when Cardinals<\/a> rookie Anthony Reyes started opposite Tigers<\/a> rookie Justin Verlander<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gausman threw 19 pitches in relief in Game 7 of the ALCS on Monday against Seattle<\/a>, three days after he tossed 91 pitches in his Game 5 start.<\/p>\n

“It made sense to hold Kevin for a day,” Schneider said, not committing to Gausman for Game 2 on Saturday or Game 3 on Monday at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-235035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235035","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=235035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}