Game 6 etc. Open Thread

We have already had a player reach base nine times in one game. Then we got a pitcher who started the year in A ball throwing a Sandy Koufax game in front of Sandy Koufax:

Where the heck did he come from? How could this be happening? Sports are awesome. Baseball is beautiful. Unlikely stories are the best part.

But there are all those other stories, and then there is Trey Yesavage. Five months ago, he was pitching in the Low-A Florida State League, facing a bunch of kids right out of high school, college and San Pedro de Macoris. Wednesday night, he was striking out 12 Dodgers in the World Series.

This shouldn’t be a thing that is happening to a real 22-year-old person, in real life. But here we are.

“It’s a crazy world,” this Blue Jays phenom was saying Wednesday night, after spinning off arguably the greatest rookie pitching performance in World Series history, in the Blue Jays’ 6-1 Game 5 win. “Crazy world. Hollywood couldn’t have made it this good.”

Those scriptwriters in Hollywood are famous for their vivid imaginations. But who imagines this? Who imagines an October dominator practically dropping out of the sky to lead the Blue Jays to within one game of a place they have never been in Yesavage’s lifetime — that place where World Series champions hang out?

“Absolutely incredible,” said Yesavage’s 41-year-old teammate, Max Scherzer. “You’ve got a guy going seven innings and punching out 12 in the World Series. I mean, that’s incredible.”

And it’s still possible that Yesavage won’t even be the star pitcher of the series, because Yoshinobu Yamamoto comes into a game 6 with a streak of two consecutive complete games. (There were, if I count correctly, 21 in the entire 2025 regular season.) I’m looking forward to it.