Trey Yesavage wasn’t supposed to do what he did on Sunday.
The ECU baseball pitcher is just a rookie. He worked his way through the Toronto Blue Jays farm system in lighting speed, from Low-A Dunedin to Triple-A Buffalo. But he wasn’t supposed to make an impact this fast.
Or was he?
On Sunday, Yesavage pitched 5.2 innings, giving up two runs on six hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. The Blue Jays won beat the Seattle Mariners, 6-2, to even the ALCS series going into Monday night’s deciding Game 7.
The winner goes to the World Series. The loser stays home.
So how did Yesavage, at just 22, do it? We know his grit, determination and desire to be at the top of his game. He was that way at ECU. The whole country, and even Canada, is finding this out now.
“When he has the ball,” Max Scherzer, the 41-year-old future Hall of Fame right-hander told USA TODAY Sports, “we all believe in him.”
“He has this silent confidence,” says Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman. “He’s kind of jokingly said he’s pitched in a lot of big games before (turning pro), and it’s funny that he thinks those were super-big games. But he really looked back on those and how he went about these, just with a bigger crowd.
“He’s not scared of anybody. Maybe he’s a little young and maybe naïve, but he’s just going to go after guys.”
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