How good is the Jays' rookie pitcher? Here's a look at Yesavage's record-breaking Game 5 stats

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. The only damage during his outing came from a solo homer in the bottom of the third inning.

Here's another impressive stat: Yesavage lasted seven innings on Wednesday, which is quite a feat in the post-season.

Especially in this series, where starters haven’t lasted long, save for Dodgers' pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto's impressive complete game performance in Saturday's Game 2.

Yesavage has now racked up 11 innings since the start of the World Series, after going three innings in Game 1. 

All of this would be impressive on its own. But it's even more stunning if you consider just how new Yesavage is. Just six weeks ago, he was still in the minor leagues.

He started the year playing low-A ball for the Dunedin Blue Jays in Florida, and rocketed his way through several other minor league teams before being called up to pitch for Toronto in mid-September.

He only had three career starts for the Jays