From pitching in front of just 327 fans in Class-A baseball to silencing more than 52,000 at Dodger Stadium, Trey Yesavage has written the kind of story that baseball romantics dream about.

The 22-year-old rookie delivered a once-in-a-generation performance in Game 5 of the 2025 World Series, striking out 12 and giving up only one run across seven dazzling innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1.

With the victory, the Blue Jays now lead 3-2 in the series — and are just one win away from their first championship in 32 years. Game 6 will be played Friday night at the Rogers Centre, where an entire nation will hold its breath.

From Class-A Dunedin to October Glory

Just months ago, Yesavage was pitching for the Dunedin Blue Jays, a small Class-A affiliate of Toronto’s organization. Fast forward to October 2025 — and he’s dominating the World Series with the poise of a seasoned ace.

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“It’s surreal,” Yesavage told reporters after the game. “Every time I step on that mound, I remember where I started.”

His 12 strikeouts were the most by any pitcher aged 23 or younger in World Series history, surpassing even legends like Madison Bumgarner and Fernando Valenzuela.

He also became the first rookie ever to record two postseason starts with 10-plus strikeouts — an achievement that immediately places him in the sport’s historical elite.

The Game That Changed Everything

From the first pitch, Yesavage made it clear that he owned the moment. His fastball touched 98 mph, his splitter was unhittable, and his slider danced on the corners. He allowed just three hits — and none after the fourth inning.

Meanwhile, Toronto’s offense did its part. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Davis Schneider opened the game with back-to-back home runs off Dodgers starter Blake Snell, instantly electrifying the Blue Jays’ dugout and stunning the home crowd.

By the time Toronto’s bullpen took over in the eighth, the Dodgers looked beaten — their bats muffled by a rookie who refused to blink.

A Nation on the Edge

For the Blue Jays and their fans, this moment feels like déjà vu — a throwback to 1993 when Joe Carter hit the famous walk-off home run to seal Toronto’s last World Series title.

Now, over three decades later, Canada finds itself on the verge of baseball ecstasy again. From Toronto to Vancouver, fans poured into bars and city squares to watch their new hero take the mound.

“If they win Friday, Trey Yesavage will never pay for a meal in Toronto again,” a fan tweeted on X (formerly Twitter) after the game.

Even former players like Josh Donaldson and Roy Halladay were trending as fans compared Yesavage’s dominance to the greatest pitching performances in Blue Jays history.

Baseball’s New Golden Boy

Yesavage’s meteoric rise is a reminder of why sports still matter — for the human stories that defy expectation. He began the year as a long-shot minor leaguer, made only a handful of major league starts, and yet has now authored the signature moment of Toronto’s postseason run.

His poise has even caught the attention of MLB legends like Pedro Martínez and Justin Verlander, who both praised him on X for his mechanics and maturity on the mound.

“He looks like he’s been doing this for ten years,” Martínez posted. “Toronto found its ace.”

Game 6 — The Moment of Truth

When the series returns to the Rogers Centre on Friday, the Blue Jays will have a chance to make history on home soil. Manager John Schneider praised his young pitcher’s focus, saying after the game:

“He doesn’t flinch. He doesn’t rattle. He just competes. That’s rare for a kid his age.”

Toronto’s bullpen is rested, the lineup is firing, and the city is ready. Should the Jays clinch Game 6, expect a celebration spilling out of Rogers Centre and onto Front Street — a party 32 years in the making.

Final Word

For now, the story belongs to Trey Yesavage — a rookie who refused to act like one, a pitcher who rose from obscurity to rewrite World Series history.

“If baseball is a game of moments,” one commentator remarked, “then this was Yesavage’s monument.”

From Dunedin to Dodger Stadium, from dream to destiny — Trey Yesavage has brought Toronto to the doorstep of immortality.

TORONTO — It was the kind of moment that defines October baseball — a blur of panic, precision, and pure instinct.

The Los Angeles Dodgers were clinging to a 3–1 lead in the bottom of the ninth at Rogers Centre, two runners in scoring position, one out, and the Toronto Blue Jays on the brink of their first World Series title in decades. Then came Kiké Hernández, the postseason hero who always seems to find the spotlight when the stakes are highest.

When Andrés Giménez sliced a broken-bat blooper into shallow left field, the stadium gasped. The ball seemed destined to drop. But Hernández — perfectly positioned and running full throttle — turned the impossible into unforgettable.

“Stay up in the air,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts recalled thinking. “Stay up in the air.”

The ball did — just long enough for Hernández to make a full-speed grab, then uncork a one-hop rocket to second base. Miguel Rojas made a clean pick and tagged the bag just before Addison Barger could scramble back. Double play. Game over.

The Dodgers lived to fight another night — and baseball fans got their wish: a winner-take-all Game 7.

The anatomy of a masterpiece

Hernández, known affectionately by fans as Playoff Kiké, has delivered countless October moments, but this one might top them all.

His field positioning — 272 feet from home plate, 26 feet shallower than the league average — proved decisive.

“With Glasnow’s stuff, I was expecting something to the left side,” Hernández explained. “Tying run was on second. I wanted to be shallow enough to keep that guy from scoring.”

When Giménez connected, Hernández broke instantly — covering 52 feet in just 3.4 seconds. According to Statcast, his jump was 7.3 feet better than league average. If he’s even a half-step slower, the ball drops and the Blue Jays are celebrating a championship.

Perfection from start to finish

After the catch, Hernández never hesitated. Charging in at full speed, he threw across his body on one hop to second — a daring move that risked an overthrow but landed perfectly in Rojas’s glove.

“When he threw the ball to second, I said, ‘No way this ball is getting past me,’” Rojas said.

Rojas kept his left foot on the bag, letting the hop travel toward him, and made the tag a split second before Barger’s fingertips touched second base.

The Dodgers bench erupted. Mookie Betts sprinted in from shortstop to leap into Hernández’s arms as the team stormed the field.

“Pretty epic ending,” Rojas grinned.

A defensive gem for the ages

Hernández’s play instantly joins the pantheon of iconic postseason moments — a defensive gem worthy of comparison to Willie Mays’s 1954 catch or Endy Chavez’s 2006 grab.

For Hernández, though, it was simply about execution.

“I just wanted to make the play,” he said. “It’s the World Series — you don’t think, you react.”

Dodgers force Game 7

The Dodgers’ 3–1 win means the 2025 World Series will be decided in a Game 7 showdown on Saturday night. Tyler Glasnow, who pitched brilliantly into the ninth, credited his defense for bailing him out.

“That’s why we trust Kiké,” Glasnow said. “He’s fearless.”

As for Hernández, he downplayed the heroics in typical fashion.

“This has been a great World Series,” he said. “The fact that we’re getting a Game 7 is well-deserved.”

And as manager Dave Roberts summed it up perfectly:

“Heck of a baseball player. Heck of a play.”

World Series 2025: A night for the ages as Ohtani and Freeman rewrite baseball history

It was a night that baseball fans will talk about for decades. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6–5 in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series, a game that lasted six hours and 39 minutes and tied the record for the longest World Series game in history.

But beyond the sheer endurance, it was Shohei Ohtani who made baseball history — achieving a 119-year first that left both fans and statisticians awestruck. His performance, combined with Freddie Freeman’s walk-off home run in the 18th inning, turned the night into one of the most unforgettable in modern baseball.

Ohtani’s night of records: rewriting 119 years of baseball history

From the very first inning, Ohtani made it clear he was on a mission. Leading off the bottom of the first with a ground-rule double to right field, he followed it with a solo homer in the third inning off Max Scherzer, one of baseball’s most experienced pitchers.

By the fifth inning, Ohtani doubled again — this time driving in an RBI off reliever Mason Fluharty — before hitting another tying solo homer in the seventh off Seranthony Domínguez. That shot tied the game at 5–5 and brought Dodger Stadium to its feet.

His performance placed him among legends. Ohtani became the first player since 1906 to record four extra-base hits in a World Series game — a feat last achieved by Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox.

To make the moment even more remarkable, Ohtani was intentionally walked four times — the first player in postseason history to be given that treatment. In total, he reached base nine times (four hits and five walks) — the first player ever to do so in a World Series game.

Historic comparisons: joining the elite company of Babe Ruth

Ohtani’s power didn’t just make headlines — it earned him comparisons with baseball immortals. He became the first hitter ever to have multiple games with at least 12 total bases in a single postseason, something even the legendary Babe Ruth only achieved twice in his entire career.

Ohtani’s two home runs in Game 3 also marked his sixth homer in four games, tying Corey Seager’s 2020 record for most home runs by a Dodgers player in a single postseason. He is now just two shy of Randy Arozarena’s record for the most home runs in a postseason.

For a man who was once told he had to choose between pitching and hitting, Ohtani’s dominance on both sides of the game has redefined what’s possible in baseball.

Freddie Freeman’s unforgettable finish

After 18 grueling innings, the game needed a hero — and Freddie Freeman answered the call. In front of a roaring Los Angeles crowd, Freeman blasted a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th inning to seal the Dodgers’ 6–5 victory.

It wasn’t Freeman’s first walk-off in World Series history — he achieved a similar feat in Game 1 of the 2024 series, when the Dodgers faced the New York Yankees.

“Moments like this are what you dream of as a kid,” Freeman said post-game. “When you’re out there, six hours deep, everyone’s running on fumes — but one swing can change everything.”

A game for the record books

This 18-inning epic tied Game 3 of the 2018 World Series between the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox as the longest by innings in World Series history.

The Dodgers used 10 pitchers, setting another World Series record, while the match became the second-longest by duration, just short of the 2018 game’s seven-hour marathon.

By the end, both teams had left everything on the field — bruised, exhausted, and forever part of baseball history.

What’s next for the World Series 2025?

The Dodgers now lead the series 2–1 and will host Game 4 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning (AEDT).

For the Toronto Blue Jays, it’s a do-or-die scenario — lose again, and they risk giving Los Angeles the momentum to clinch the series early.

With Ohtani in record-breaking form and Freeman once again proving his clutch credentials, the Dodgers look poised to write another glorious chapter in their storied franchise history.

Why Ohtani’s performance matters

Beyond the box score, Ohtani’s performance symbolizes something greater — the blending of cultures and the global reach of baseball. From his beginnings in Oshu, Japan to his dominance in Major League Baseball, Ohtani’s journey continues to inspire a new generation of athletes around the world.

When he took his victory lap, cap raised to the Los Angeles crowd, fans knew they weren’t just witnessing another great game — they were witnessing history.

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