As the 2025 World Series moves back to Toronto for Friday's Game 6, there's no baseball tonight, and that's a good thing because it's going to take us another day to get over what Trey Yesavage accomplished Wednesday.
The 22-year-old Jays pitcher managed to stack up 12 — yes, twelve — strikeouts in just over 100 pitches during his Game 5 start at Dodger Stadium, breaking the Major League Baseball (MLB) record for most strikeouts by a rookie in a post-season game.
In fact, no one had surpassed that record since 1949, when Don Newcombe struck out 11. At the time, Newcombe was playing for none other than the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Even more than that though, Yesavage is in a league of his own as the only pitcher in MLB history to record 12 strikeouts in a World Series game while issuing zero walks.
You heard that, zero walks.
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