LOS ANGELES — Nine years, nine months and five days after Joe Carter rounded the bases in a building called the SkyDome, Dave and Cheryl Yesavage welcomed a baby boy into the world. They named him Trey. Like so many of his future Toronto Blue Jays teammates, he wasn’t born yet the last time the franchise won a championship. At 22, Yesavage is merely the youngest.
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On Friday evening, Yesavage and the rest of his teammates will reconvene in that same stadium, now known as Rogers Centre, with a chance to return Toronto to the promised land. After a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday, the Blue Jays will have two chances at immortality, two chances to make memories that linger like Carter’s walkoff still does for fans across Canada, two chances to match the dominance Yesavage unleashed at Dodger Stadium.
“I can’t wait,” Toronto manager John Schneider said, “to see what the Rogers Centre is going to look, feel, and sound like.”
If there is to be a coronation, Yesavage may be a spectator. But he pushed his club to the doorstep of history with 12 strikeouts across seven innings of one-run baseball. Wielding a hellacious splitter thrown from a uniquely elevated release point, Yesavage established a new
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