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Oct 23, 2025, 01:56 PM ET

TORONTO — Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday against the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Blake Snell, but a decision on activating shortstop Bo Bichette still officially has yet to be made.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Bichette, a two-time All-Star, has recovered from a sprained left knee that sidelined him for 1 1/2 months and may be activated for the World Series.

“We’re kind of coming right down to the wire with it,” Schneider said Thursday. “He’s feeling good, which is nice. Still a few more boxes to check.”

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Yesavage, who made his major league debut on Sept. 15, will be making his fourth postseason start, giving the 22-year-old more postseason starts than career regular-season outings (3).

Schneider said Thursday he wasn’t ready to announce his Game 2 starter from among Kevin Gausman, Max Scherzer and Shane Bieber.

The Dodgers announced earlier this week that Snell would start Game 1 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will follow in Game 2.

Selected 20th overall in last year’s amateur draft from East Carolina University, Yesavage began the season at Class A Dunedin, was promoted to High-A Vancouver on May 20, Double-A New Hampshire on June 12 and Triple-A Buffalo on Aug. 12.

He was 1-0 with a 3.21 ERA in three starts in September, striking out 16 in 14 innings, helped by a devastating splitter, with seven walks.

Yesavage beat the New York Yankees with 5 1/3 scoreless, hitless innings in Game 2 of the Division Series as he struck out 11, lost Game 2 of the AL Championship Series when he allowed five runs in four innings, then won Game 6 of the ALCS on Sunday when he gave up two runs in 5 2/3 innings.

He will be the first rookie to start Game 1 of the World Series since 2006, when Cardinals rookie Anthony Reyes started opposite Tigers rookie Justin Verlander.

Gausman threw 19 pitches in relief in Game 7 of the ALCS on Monday against Seattle, three days after he tossed 91 pitches in his Game 5 start.

“It made sense to hold Kevin for a day,” Schneider said, not committing to Gausman for Game 2 on Saturday or Game 3 on Monday at Dodger Stadium.

Bichette, a two-time AL hits leader, hasn’t played since he sprained his left knee in a Sept. 6 collision with Yankees catcher Austin Wells. He said Tuesday that he’d be ready for the World Series.

Schneider said Bichette, 27, could be at shortstop, designated hitter or even second base, where he last played in 2019 in the minor leagues.

“Continuing to make progress,” Schneider said. “He’s taking ground balls, running.”

Bichette was second in the major leagues to the Yankees’ Aaron Judge with a .311 batting average, hitting 18 homers with 94 RBIs in 139 games.

The Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.

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  Jorge CastilloOct 19, 2025, 11:32 PM ET

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  ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.

TORONTO — Trey Yesavage had just finished his bullpen session in Seattle on Thursday, his final tuneup before taking the ball and helping extend the Toronto Blue Jays’ season with a 6-2 win in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday, when he asked Chris Bassitt and Kevin Gausman, two veteran starters with 24 major league seasons between them, what was the furthest they’ve ever advanced in the postseason.

“This is as far as I’ve gone,” the 34-year-old Gausman, a 13-year veteran, told the rookie. “You don’t get these opportunities very often.”

The conversation left a mark on Yesavage as he prepared for his sixth career start — all since making his debut Sept. 15 — with the Blue Jays’ season riding on his right arm. And he made sure to give the Blue Jays a chance to advance further by limiting the Seattle Mariners, sloppy and wasteful with the chance to put the Blue Jays away, to two runs across 5â…” innings with help from three consecutive inning-ending double plays at a raucous Rogers Centre.

“This was the most electric, energized crowd I’ve ever played in front of before,” said Yesavage, who struck out seven and walked three. “And the team rallied behind the fans. They were a huge motivation for us.”

Toronto outplayed the Mariners in every facet Sunday. Perhaps the best defense in baseball, the Blue Jays played mistake-free defense, while the Mariners committed three errors. They ran the bases effectively, while the Mariners failed to snatch every 90-foot advancement available. They delivered when scoring opportunities arose.

Toronto’s performance forced a Game 7 on Monday night. It’ll be its first Game 7 in 40 years and Seattle’s first in franchise history. The Blue Jays, after dropping two games at home to begin this season, will play for their first AL pennant since 1993. The Mariners seek their first pennant in franchise history. The winner will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

“My emotional state has been a fricking mess for months, man, to be honest with you,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “I’m just calling it what it is. This is fun. I wish we were playing right now.”

The Mariners’ first two defensive miscues moments apart in the second inning helped dig a two-run hole. First, Julio Rodríguez failed to cleanly track down a single from Daulton Varsho to the left-center field gap, allowing Varsho to take second base. The next batter, Ernie Clement, laced a groundball to third baseman Eugenio Suárez, who smoothly gloved it but lost the ball on the transfer to throw.

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Addison Barger and Isiah Kiner-Falefa immediately capitalized with consecutive RBI singles to open the scoring against Mariners right-hander Logan Gilbert. An inning later, after Clement drove a two-out triple off the top of the wall in right field, Barger cracked a two-run home run to double Toronto’s lead. Barger, the Blue Jays’ right fielder, has hit safely in four straight games and has reached base safely in seven of his eight starts after beginning the season as Triple-A Buffalo’s starting shortstop.

“It felt awesome,” Barger said. “Obviously, that’s a moment you dream about as a kid and everything. Yeah, Gilbert’s, he’s disgusting. He has a great arm. I think [he] just left that slider a little too middle and [I] got extended on it and that was it.”

On the other side, the Mariners ran traffic on the bases against Yesavage but unfathomably encountered the same abrupt rally killer for three straight innings. The misfortune began when Cal Raleigh, the regular-season AL MVP contender with four postseason home runs, hit into a 3-6-1 double play on a splitter with the bases loaded in the third inning to extinguish the first danger Yesavage faced. Raleigh finished 0-for-4 with three strikeouts.

In the fourth, Crawford, again with the bases loaded and on a splitter from Yesavage, grounded into a 4-6-3 double play as the Mariners became the first team to ground into double plays with the bases loaded in two straight innings in a postseason game since it became an official statistic in 1940, according to Elias Sports Bureau.

“In that moment, to make pitches, to get over and cover first and not screw it up, to settle himself down, I think that shows exactly who he is and what we think he is,” Schneider said.

Finally, with runners on first and second in the fifth, Rodríguez completed the trifecta, grounding into a 6-4-3 double play that left the Mariners stunned and the crowd jacked by Yesavage’s successful highwire acts in succession after not inducing a groundball double play in the big leagues before Sunday.

“We did have some opportunities to score, and we did get some base runners on,” Mariners manager Dan Wilson said. “But you give a little credit to Yesavage. The secondaries that he had tonight were good. It kept us off stride and kept the ball on the ground for those double plays.”

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. then continued his October assault in the bottom half of the inning with a leadoff home run to chase Gilbert from the game. The homer was Guerrero’s sixth of the postseason, tying him with José Bautista and Joe Carter for the franchise record for most career postseason home runs.

He finished the night’s scoring by wreaking havoc on the bases: After getting hit by a pitch with one out in the seventh inning, Guerrero advanced to second base on a single from Alejandro Kirk, took third on a wild pitch and jogged home when Raleigh’s throw to third base bounced past Suárez into left field.

“A run is a run,” Guerrero said in Spanish. “We had to score as many as possible, however we could.”

The Mariners broke through with two outs in the sixth inning. Josh Naylor, an Ontario native, swatted his third home run of the series for Seattle’s first run. Randy Arozarena followed with a single that knocked Yesavage out of the game at 87 pitches. Suarez then welcomed reliever Louis Varland by dropping a bloop double down the right-field line to score Arozarena from first base.

But that was all Seattle’s offense, a unit that heavily relies on home runs and didn’t hit any Sunday, could muster. From there, Varland and Jeff Hoffman held Seattle scoreless over the final 3â…“ innings to finish what the Blue Jays’ 22-year-old rookie started.

Yesavage’s postseason career began with a gem: 5â…” no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts and no walks in Game 2 of the AL Division Series against the New York Yankees. His second start was not nearly the same.

It had been six days since the Mariners scored five runs in four innings against Yesavage in Game 2, handing the 2024 first-round pick his first adversity at the highest level. For Gausman, a fellow splitter-heavy right-hander, Yesavage’s outing came down to one mistake splitter that Rodríguez swatted down the left-field line for a three-run home run in the first inning.

On Sunday, Yesavage threw the splitter — his signature pitch — 31 times and got 10 whiffs. He used it to wiggle out of the game’s biggest jams with a composure not expected from someone who began his season by walking six batters in Single A. Six-plus months later, those pitches helped keep Toronto’s season alive and a deeper run possible.

“His confidence for 22 is — I couldn’t make that start when I was 22,” Gausman said. “I’ll be honest with you.”

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As Trey Wingo explains it, almost every broadcaster has had that moment, when an embarrassing on-air blunder comes almost out of nowhere.

Some are worse than others, although Wingo, the long-time broadcaster and guest on last week’s Subpar podcast, said his “almost ended my career.”

Wingo detailed the error on the podcast, which he said happened during one of his first overnight gigs on “SportsCenter.”

“It’s the first round of the Players Championship at Sawgrass in 1998, and the year before John Daly had gone just nuts,” Wingo said. “Had gotten drunk, missed his tee time, torn up his condo where he was staying, so it was his first attempt to try and get sober, try to clean up his life. He was teeing off a year after the fact, after his low point.”

Wingo said Daly had just received an AA coin symbolizing another month of sober living, which Wingo planned to work into his opening.

“And I’m writing this lede and thinking, this is going to be the greatest thing in the world. The words are just flowing off my lips onto the typewriter,” he said. “So I wrote this sentence right before he teed off: ‘John Daly received his coin signifying [however] many months of alcohol-free living.’ So it’s the dumbest way to say it, right? It’s just clumsy. I should have just said six months of being sober or being straight, whatever. But I wrote it ‘signifying six months of alcohol-free living.’

“And I swear to God, as I’m reading it on camera, I don’t know why, it came out of my mouth, ‘he received a coin signifying six-months of free alcohol.’ I could feel the blood rushing out of my face as we went to the highlights.”

Back then, Wingo explained, the show re-aired frequently, which meant some segments were beefed up and others were shortened as news broke. When they went to the next commercial, his coordinating producer told him, “Trey, we are going to need to fix that lead-in for the re-air.” Wingo, dejected, agreed.

You can listen to the complete interview with Wingo here or watch on YouTube below.

TORONTO — Trey Yesavage just put up his first triple-double in the big leagues.

Three innings, three escapes with double plays. Yesavage came into his Game 6 start in the American League Championship Series on Sunday without forcing a double play in his big league career, and heâ€d forced just two hitters to ground into double plays over 98 innings in the Minors.

What timing to learn a new trick.

Yesavage struck out seven Mariners over his 5 2/3 innings, holding Seattle to two runs, but this is the first Yesavage start weâ€ll remember for a play he was part of defensively.

Yesavage pulled these double plays off to end the third, fourth and fifth innings, but the double play to end the third might have been the defining moment of the game, perfectly capturing the 2025 Blue Jays in one well-timed flurry.

With the bases loaded and Cal Raleigh at the plate, Yesavage was staring down the barrel of a worst-case scenario. Raleighâ€s home run in Game 5 in Seattle on Sunday kickstarted the Mariners†comeback and the Blue Jays†implosion, and fresh off a 60-homer season, Raleigh could have flipped the game in an instant and ended Torontoâ€s season. Instead, he hit a ground ball to first base, and it all began.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made the scoop moving toward second base and, while still running, fired a strike to Andrés Giménez. This might be Guerreroâ€s most underrated skill, his incredible ability to make throws from first base, especially to kickstart double plays. Giménez, the Blue Jays†big offseason addition and big bet on more elite defense, made the perfect throw back to first, and it was Yesavage whoâ€d scampered over just in time. From the face of the franchise to the defensive specialist to the rookie sensation, what a moment.

According to Elias, since 1940 only three other teams had hit into an inning-ending double play in three straight innings in a postseason game. Yesavage just forced the Mariners to sit at a table with the Padres in the 2005 NL Division Series, the Reds in the 1995 NLCS and the Mets in the 1973 World Series. All of this from a pitcher whoâ€s known for everything but forcing ground balls.

Yesavage had been handling business the old-fashioned way prior to that, striking out the side in the second inning. Unlike last time out against the Mariners in Game 2, he was leaning more heavily on his incredible splitter, which creates such a great sense of deception when it plays off his fastball. Yesavage got away from that the first time he faced Seattle, instead turning to his slider, but he was back to the best version of himself in the early innings.

Yesavage is already one of the best stories of the season for the Blue Jays, and performances like these are putting him in a small group of postseason stars in this organizationâ€s history. If weâ€re still watching highlights of this run years from now, weâ€ll be seeing his first double play in the big leagues over and over again.

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In a 23-year career with ESPN, Trey Wingo has had his run-ins with the sports elite.

But as he told GOLF’s Subpar co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on this week’s episode of the podcast, there was one day that was unrivaled for star power.

Wingo began by explaining that a lot of his run-ins involved his former ESPN colleague, the late Stuart Scott, because “Stuart knew everybody.”

At the 2003 NBA All-Star game, Wingo was staying at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlanta when he got a text from Scott.

“Hey, come down,” the text said. “I’m having lunch with somebody you probably want to hang out with.”

That person was none other than Tiger Woods.

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“[I] go into a little restaurant, back booth, there’s Stuart and I turn, there’s Tiger having lunch with Stuart,” Wingo said. “I’m like the hugest— From the moment Tiger came onto the scene, I was like, this guy is just got it. I have a whole file in my computer of all the things in the awards and all the tournaments he won, all 82 of them. I’m like geeking out.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, hey.’

“Tiger looks up and goes, ‘Hey, Trey.’”

Wingo was like all of us. He lost all memory of how to act.

Woods could only stay for about 20 minutes and Scott left shortly after that. So Wingo did what any of us would have done in that situation: he raced out to call his dad.

“I’m getting ready to call on the old flip phone and the elevator opens in the Ritz in Atlanta,” Wingo said. “Like an idiot, instead of waiting, I just barge in because I am not thinking right. I’m like, I got to tell my dad, I just had lunch with Tiger Woods. This is amazing.

“So the elevator opens — it’s NBA All-Star weekend — and I just walk in and I run smack dab into this wall of a human being. And it’s just solid as can be. And I look up and he goes, ‘Wingo, watch where you’re going.’”

It was Michael Jordan.

“I’m like, ‘Michael, sorry, that’s on me. It’s my bad.’ So I went from having lunch with Tiger and texting, and I run into Michael Jordan,” he said. “Tiger and the MJ in like a 15 minute span. And I was like, yeah, I could die today.”

For more from Wingo, including the story of the golf slip that almost ruined his career, listen to the full episode of Subpar here, or watch it below.

It’s been several weeks since the Americans’ gut-wrenching 15-13 loss to the Europeans at the 2025 Ryder Cup, but conversations about what the U.S. team can do better in 2027 and beyond continue.

On this week’s episode of Subpar, sports-world mainstay Trey Wingo offered a number of takes, highlighted by a particularly bold idea that he believes can help the U.S. team in future Ryder Cups.

“It matters more to them,” Wingo said of the Europeans. “It just does. The first thing I would do is something that Colt and I have talked about on my show: I’d get rid of the Presidents Cup. That’s the first thing I would do.

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“Like, it’s not competitive. It’s just a money-maker for the PGA Tour, and we care, kind of, because we like to win. The Europeans get two years to to get into a lather about this, and we go through this banal, meaningless exhibition. And I’m happy for the Mike Weirs of the world and all the Australian players and the Koreans and the Canadians that get a chance to have this format. That’s wonderful. It’s not the Ryder Cup, OK? It’s not close, it’s not the same thing.”

Wingo suggested implementing a U.S. event that is geared toward additional investment in the Ryder Cup, similar to the Seve Trophy, a Ryder Cup-style match-play team event that was played in Europe in non-Ryder Cup years.

“Basically, a program to get people to care about the Ryder Cup, to get it to be ingrained in their system,” Wingo said.

More reps in team match-play formats would also benefit the Americans, Wingo added.

“The other thing we gotta figure out is how come we don’t play well with each other, right?” he said. “We’re decent in four-ball, we’re OK in singles. We’re not as dominant as we used to be in singles. We gotta figure out a way to play better together. We’ve got to find a way to create cohesive teams that work together better in alternate shot, because that’s killing us.”

For more from Wingo, including the story of the golf slip that almost ruined his career, check out the full episode of Subpar below.

The San Francisco 49ers reportedly have interest in a trade for All-Pro pass-rusher Trey Hendrickson should the Cincinnati Bengals make him available.

According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, the Niners view Hendrickson as an “ideal fit” for their defensive system.

However, Fowler added that the Bengals currently have “no plans” to trade Hendrickson and remain “all in” on trying to win this season despite being 2-4 and the fact that star quarterback Joe Burrow is on injured reserve with a toe injury.

ESPN’s Dan Graziano echoed Fowler’s report, noting that he has also heard the Bengals aren’t looking to move on from Hendrickson.

Of course, things could conceivably change in the coming weeks if the Bengals continue to struggle and see their record suffer even more.

Hendrickson, 30, is in the midst of the final year of his contract. He spent the past two offseasons trying to land an extension, but all the Bengals were willing to give was a reworked deal that is paying him $29 million this season.

The Bengals stand to potentially lose Hendrickson for nothing in free agency, which gives them incentive to move him by the Nov. 4 trade deadline if a playoff berth is looking unlikely at that point.

San Francisco makes perfect sense as a landing spot for the four-time Pro Bowler and one-time First Team All-Pro since the 49ers lost superstar pass-rusher Nick Bosa for the season due to a torn ACL.

Bryce Huff has done well with a team-high three sacks, but he is more of a specialist than an every-down player, and the 49ers could undoubtedly use a pass-rushing threat on the other side.

Hendrickson had back-to-back 17.5-sack seasons in 2023 and 2024, and he finished second in NFL Defensive Player of the Year voting last season.

He had 13.5 sacks or more in four of five seasons entering 2025, and he is trending toward another big year with four sacks through six games.

Despite dealing with injuries to Bosa and several other key players, the 49ers have managed to hang in there with a 4-2 record.

The Niners are getting healthier with players such as tight end George Kittle and quarterback Brock Purdy trending toward a return, and adding Hendrickson to the mix would likely energize the team even more.

While nothing appears to be happening on that front presently, it merits watching as the deadline draws closer and the Bengals’ place in the standings becomes clearer.

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TORONTO – The Mariners had never seen Trey Yesavage pitch in person before, but they had seen and heard the stories.

How the 22-year-old Blue Jays righty transcended four full-season levels of the Minor Leagues to burst into the big leagues in September. How he captivated a raucous Rogers Centre crowd with 5 1/3 no-hit innings against the Yankees in the American League Division Series. The Mariners did not have any prior experience against Yesavage, but they knew what was coming, having seen the video of the plummeting splitter that has made hitters look so silly at every level this year.

It was their job to put a pause on Yesavageâ€s meteoric rise, at least for the moment.

The Mariners tagged Yesavage for five runs – one of which came from an intentional walk in the fifth inning – across four-plus innings in their 10-3 win over the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the AL Championship Series on Monday. And with it, the series swings to Seattle with the Mariners two wins away from their first World Series appearance.

“At the end of the day, you’ve got to see the ball and get your pitch,†said Julio Rodríguez, who hit a three-run homer in the first. “And I just feel like, obviously, we have seen what he’s been doing, and obviously we respect that, but we went out there to compete.â€

Yesavage struck out four but walked three and hit a batter. His command was shakier than the Blue Jays had seen in his previous four starts. But the Mariners seemed to figure out the blueprint on how to approach the rookie.

“Just trying to get on the fastball,†catcher Cal Raleigh said. “A lot of us, weâ€ve never seen him before. So it was kind of seeing what heâ€s got and understanding it. Heâ€s a really good pitcher.â€

Yesavage has one of the highest release points in baseball, throwing straight over the top of his 6-foot-4 frame. That makes for a tough look on hitters, with pitches seemingly falling from the sky. Add that look to a splitter that tumbles down and out of the zone, and hitters are often swinging silly as they try to guess whatâ€s coming at them. Yesavage got 11 whiffs on 14 swings against his splitter in his MLB debut against the Rays a month ago. Last week in the ALDS, the Yankees whiffed 11 times on 16 swings (69 percent) against the pitch.

Of Yesavageâ€s 70 pitches, the Mariners saw 44 percent fastballs, but then also saw more sliders (23) than splitters (16). When they did see it, they did not swing often – just six times, whiffing twice – and one of those swings was Rodríguezâ€s homer on a splitter that did not move out of the zone at all. He sent it 370 feet out to left field for his second home run this postseason.

“I had belief in the slider as much as the splitter today,†Yesavage said. “I would say the slider was a little bit better than it has been in the past, but I had full trust in that, so I was out there throwing it.â€

Yesavage – who has thrown a career-high 121 1/3 innings this year between the Minors, Majors and postseason – saw his velocity drop as he pitched deeper into the game. After handling the bottom of the Mariners†order in the fourth, Blue Jays manager John Schneider sent Yesavage out for the fifth.

Yesavage might not have had his sharpest stuff, the velocity was dropping and he was about to face Seattleâ€s lineup for the third time. But the Blue Jays wanted to see if they could get a few more outs from him.

“You consider it, but at the same time, itâ€s tough to continue to churn through bullpen arms,†Schneider said. “Youâ€re taking into account the uniqueness of his arsenal, and youâ€re taking it batter to batter there. It didnâ€t start out great with the error. It was a tough decision, for sure.â€

On the first pitch of the frame, Randy Arozarena singled and ended up on second because of Andrés Giménezâ€s errant throw that went into the Mariners†dugout and hit Eugenio Suárez.

The Blue Jays intentionally walked Raleigh, and Schneider made his way to the mound to end Yesavageâ€s day. Reliever Louis Varland struck out Rodríguez but allowed the tiebreaking three-run homer to Jorge Polanco.

“It’s tough, man, when you get no outs and you’re trying to just stop the bleeding,†Schneider said.

What comes next for Yesavage depends on how the Blue Jays can respond in Seattle. Perhaps they use him if they find themselves in an all-hands-on-deck situation by Game 4 or 5. The Mariners are cognizant of the fact they might see the rookie again, and if they do, theyâ€ll be able to pull from Monday nightâ€s performance to prepare.

“With myself, Iâ€ll just go to the field tomorrow and attack the recovery I need to do as if I went seven shutout today,†Yesavage said. “It doesnâ€t change my preparation. Iâ€ll show up to the field the same way.â€

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TORONTO — Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage will start Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on Monday, the team announced Sunday.

With the announcement, Yesagave addressed the media before Game 1 at Rogers Centre and began his news conference with an unprompted statement decrying the vitriol his loved ones have recently received on social media.

“I want to start off by saying something,” Yesavage said. “Living in this world where there’s so many different opinions and feelings, which results in a lot of hate, it’s sad to see that people close to me are being attacked for my performances on the field. These people have done nothing to warrant negativity for my actions, whether that’s my parents, my brothers, my girlfriend, family. It’s just really sad.”

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Yesavage declined to elaborate on the situation. It’s the second time that a rookie starting pitcher has denounced social media attacks this postseason; Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler said Red Sox fans “crossed the line” by attacking his family before his start against Boston in Game 3 of the wild-card series.

“I know I have the platform to address it, so I am,” Yesavage said. “I hope that people can realize that those individuals have nothing to do with what happens on the field or whatnot. If you have a problem, I’m a man; I can take whatever opinions anybody has about me or my life. So, I just wanted to get that out there.”

Game 2 will be Yesavage’s fifth career major league outing. His fourth was a historic performance against the Yankees in Game 2 of the AL Division Series, when he tossed 5â…“ no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts.

Mariners manager Dan Wilson said his team has not decided on a Game 2 starter, though Logan Gilbert is the likely choice. Seattle used Gilbert and fellow starter Luis Castillo in their 15-inning Game 5 win over the Tigers on Friday night. Gilbert threw 34 pitches over two innings after allowing a run in six innings in Game 3 on Tuesday.

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TORONTO — Toronto rookie Trey Yesavage says his family has been subjected to abuse since his impressive postseason debut last weekend against the New York Yankees.

“Living in this world where thereâ€s so many different opinions and feelings which results in a lot of hate, itâ€s sad to see that people close to me are being attacked for my performances on the field,†Yesavage said Sunday before the AL Championship Series opener against Seattle.

“These people have done nothing to warrant negativity for my actions, whether thatâ€s my parents, my brothers, my girlfriend, family,†he added. “Itâ€s just really sad. I know I have the platform to address it, so I am. I hope that people can realize that those individuals have nothing to do with what happens on the field. If you have a problem, Iâ€m a man. I can take whatever opinions anybody has about me or my life. So I just wanted to get that out there.â€

Yesavage, scheduled to start Game 2 on Monday, declined to answer a follow-up question about the matter.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Yesavage didnâ€t speak to him before making his comments.

“Itâ€s unfortunate that thatâ€s a reality,†Schneider said of the abuse. “I commend him for saying what he said and for backing up the people that love and support him.â€

Yankees rookie Cam Schlittler, who grew up a Red Sox fan in Walpole, Massachusetts, said his family received online abuse before he beat Boston to win the Wild Card Series for New York.

Making his fourth big league appearance, Yesavage set a Blue Jays postseason record by striking out 11 Yankees in 5 1/3 hitless innings in AL Division Series Game 2 on Oct. 5. Eight strikeouts came on the split-finger fastball of the 22-year-old right-hander, who induced 18 swings and misses, including 11 on the splitter.

“Heâ€s definitely something that weâ€re going to have to figure out,†Mariners manager Dan Wilson. “The big split, theyâ€re tough pitches, obviously.â€

Yesavage went 1-0 with a 3.21 ERA in three September starts. Including his postseason start, he has 27 strikeouts in 19 1/3 big league innings.

“Heâ€s pretty special,†Blue Jays teammate Addison Barger said. “To be able to do what he did in the regular season and in the Division Series, itâ€s kind of unrealistic, but heâ€s been able to do it. Itâ€s been amazing to watch and weâ€re super excited to have him.â€

The Mariners, who used three starting pitchers in Fridayâ€s 15-inning win over Detroit, have not announced a starter for Game 2.

“Weâ€re going to see how guys feel today and likely announce that after the game,†Wilson said.

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