84 m. ago Here's why the Toronto Blue Jays pulled Trey Yesavage in historic Yankees beatdown

Even in perhaps the best two-game stretch of his entire run as Toronto Blue Jays manager, John Schneider knows that he's not always going to be the most popular guy in town.On Sunday, Schneider's Blue Jays pulled off a game anyone in attendance will probably never forget.While Toronto scored 13 runs on the day to take a 2-0 series lead over the New York Yankees, the biggest star of the game was starting pitcher Trey Yesavage, who put on one of the best performances anyone's ever had wearing a Jays uniform.In just 5.1 innings of work (and only his fourth-ever MLB start), the 22-year-old rookie made Jays postseason history with a franchise-record 11 strikeouts on the day, giving up no hits and just one walk.But he actually could've probably had a better performance, had he not been pulled after just 78 pitches. More than half-way to what would've been the first no-hitter in Blue Jays playoff history, Schneider decided he'd rather play the percentages and let Ye...

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1 hour ago Big Papi rips reeling Yanks: ‘This Blue Jays lineup ain’t playin’ around’

It’s not just Blue Jays bats bashing hard on the reeling New York Yankees, who left Toronto Sunday night having to wonder what just hit them. With a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five American League Division Series as action shifts back to the Bronx on Wednesday. The New York Post’s banner back page headline […]

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4 h. ago Toronto Blue Jays will try for series sweep in Game 3 at New York on Tuesday

The Toronto Blue Jays are brimming with confidence as they hit the road in their American League Division Series against the New York Yankees. 

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12 h. ago Blue Jays Game 2 win might have felt all Yesavage and Guerrero Jr, but there was more to it

In a game where your greenest rookie simply overpowers the best hitting team in baseball, and your franchise first baseman has a grand slam, it’s easy for other players to get lost in the shuffle. Not that any of those players cares much beyond the win and the 2-0 lead they take to New York […]

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12 h. ago SIMMONS: Is Blue Jays young star Trey Yesavage a modern day Ken Dryden?

It’s too late for Ken Dryden to meet Trey Yesavage. It’s too late for him to explain how it was that he came up to the Montreal Canadiens with just six games remaining in the 1971 National Hockey League season and then against all odds led the Habs to the Stanley Cup. This is just […]

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13 h. ago Locked in Vlad Guerrero Jr. is giving Blue Jays the superstar touch

It may have been Trey Yesavage’s day on Sunday at the Rogers Centre, but through two games of this torrid Blue Jays offensive output, it’s starting to feel like Vlad Guerrero’s world. The team’s all-star first baseman continued to add his slug to the Jays attack, belting a grand slam in the fourth inning, the […]

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13 h. ago Everyone is loving the proud dad of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage

No matter what happens for the rest of the playoffs, Trey Yesavage's 2025 season with the Toronto Blue Jays is probably already way beyond his wildest dreams.The team's surprise starting pitcher for their Game 2 matchup Sunday at the Rogers Centre, Yesavage had an all-time performance in just his fourth-ever MLB game.Going 5.1 innings in front of a packed home crowd, Yesavage sent down just about every batter he faced, giving up no hits and just one walk in an 11-strikeout start.SIX STRAIGHT STRIKEOUTSTEN Ks THROUGH 4 INNINGSTREY YESAVAGE IS HERE! #ALDS pic.twitter.com/xTYyzc8O9z— MLB (@MLB) October 5, 2025And while plenty of Blue Jays fans in attendance were having a blast watching a star in the making, perhaps nobody was having a better day than his father, Dave.“I was hoping he would do well, but I never expected this. Especially against the Yankees!” he told FOX's Ken Rosenthal.Sitting in the crowd level at the Rogers Centre, the elder Yesavage was ...

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14 h. ago Yankees endure a thoroughly savage day against Blue Jays’ ‘unique’ rookie starter

Prior to Sunday’s Game 2 of the ALDS, the Yankees had some recent experience facing a rookie starter with their season on the line. In a must-win wild card Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees were up against young left-hander Connelly Early. The kid was good early in shutting down the Yankees […]

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14 h. ago New York Yankees return to the Big Apple with their collective tails between their legs

The alleged Bronx Bombers are bombing out right in front of everyone’s eyes. New York entered its ALDS against the Blue Jays with a decided power edge. The vaunted power has short-circuited in a series that is inching ever so closer to ending short. The unthinkable sweep is now in play. Even if the Yankees […]

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16 h. ago Blue Jays rookie Yesavage makes franchise history in first career playoff start

Toronto's first-round draft pick in 2024 had 10 strikeouts through first four innings, setting franchise record

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17 h. ago Blue Jays fans lean into superstitions to bring team luck against Yankees

Rookie right-hander Trey Yesavage tapped to make his fourth career big-league start in biggest game of his career

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21 h. ago Toronto Blue Jays got totally disrespected by American media in Yankees series predictions

The Toronto Blue Jays have home-field advantage. They also beat the New York Yankees in eight of 13 games this season, including victories in six of seven games against the Yanks at Rogers Centre.Don't tell that to American media members, who don't seem to be taking the Blue Jays seriously.Most U.S. media outlets believe the Yankees will emerge victorious over Toronto during the first-ever meeting between these two teams in the postseason.On MLB.com, about two-thirds of their writers said that the Yankees will prevail against the Blue Jays, despite being the lower seed. They highlighted Bo Bichette's absence and the emergence of New York pitcher Camerom Schlittler as factors that could be the difference in the series.That slant towards the Yankees comes off as tame compared to other outlets.A panel of five CBS Sports writers all unanimously picked the Yankees to beat the Jays, although all of their writers said the series would go to a decisive Game 5."I question th...

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21 h. ago New York Yankees manager claps back at Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez

It's been nearly a month since Buck Martinez criticized the New York Yankees.However, his comments haven't been forgotten.When the Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros on Sept. 9, the story wasn't about the final result (a 4-3 Toronto win). What most remember from that game were Martinez's comments in the seventh inning when he found out that the Detroit Tigers were pounding the Yankees."You know, the Yankees, they're not a good team. I don't care what their record is. They have a lot of wild pitches, they make a lot of mistakes in the field, they don't run the bases very well. If they don't hit home runs, they don't have a chance to win."Well, turns out that neither the fans nor Yankees manager Aaron Boone have forgotten his comments.“Contrary to some thoughts up here, we’re a really good team," Boone told reporters on Friday.Just in case it wasn't clear who Boone was talking about, he later clarified."I know...

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25 h. ago Trey Yesavage intraitable, les Blue Jays amènent les Yankees dans les câbles

Les Blue Jays de Toronto, menés par le lanceur Trey Yesavage, l’ont emporté 13 à 7 lors du deuxième match de la série de division, dimanche.

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26 h. ago SIMMONS: Logical, uncomfortable call by Jays to go with Yesavage over Scherzer, Bassitt

Trey Yesavage has made three major-league starts. His fourth will come on Sunday afternoon on the largest of stages — an American League Division Series playoff start — against the New York Yankees. Combined, Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt have started 692 big league games, thrown for some 4,231 innings. The first inning in Game […]

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27 h. ago Blue Jays unplugged: What was said in clubhouse after big Game 1 win

Hoffman, Lukes, Varland talk big win.

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35 h. ago SIMMONS: Textbook triumph by Blue Jays with big plays up and down lineup

Aaron Judge walked to the plate, based loaded, none out, sixth inning, the sold out crowd near silent and John Schneider for wanted to be sick. For the moment, anyhow. Nathan Lukes already felt sick — and it had nothing to do with the game situation. “I was under the weather already,” he said. “Just […]

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36 h. ago Guerrero shows love to Toronto Blue Jays fans after Yankee playoff beatdown

The Toronto Blue Jays hadn't won a playoff game since 2016. That changed in emphatic fashion on Saturday at Rogers Centre.Toronto jumped out to an early 2-0 lead over the New York Yankees thanks to home runs from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk. They ended the contest with a commanding 10-1 win.There was a bit of drama for the Jays in the sixth inning, as New York loaded the bases with Aaron Judge at the plate when the score was 2-1. However, Kevin Gausman struck him out, and the Jays escaped the inning, only allowing one run.Blue Jays batters took over in the seventh and eighth innings, pounding in eight more runs en route to the victory.This win was a long time coming for this Blue Jays core, and specifically, Guerrero."Every time we come here, we do it for the fans," Guerrero told Sportsnet's Hazel Mae after the game."My first homer here at home, that feels amazing."The Montreal-born slugger got the party started during his first at-bat, smash...

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37 h. ago Lukes produit trois points et les Blue Jays entament les séries avec un gain

C’était pour les Jays un premier gain en séries en neuf ans.

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38 h. ago Vlad Guerrero Jr. has his first big playoff moment as Blue Jays strike first in blowout of Yankees

It has become a date on the calendar to define Toronto Blue Jays baseball, good and bad. There was Oct. 4, 2016, the day Edwin Encarnacion rocked a three-run homer in the 11th inning of an AL wildcard game to send the Jays to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Then there was Oct. […]

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