Blue Jays Savage Fried & Yanks. Toronto 13 NY 7

October 6, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0
Ben Rice rips a double in Yanks' 5-run 7th inning.

Toronto fried Max Fried — knocking him out in the 4th inning with 5 runs already on the board — and did the same to Will Warren — taking a 12-0 lead by the 5th inning — while their young ace Trey Yesavage left with a no-hitter through 5.1 innings, striking out 11.

As soon as Yesavage was out of the game the Yankees started scoring — 7 runs in the 6th and 7th innings — to make the score respectable but it was a BLOWOUT of highest magnitude and left the Yanks a game away from elimination, down 2-0 in the best-of-5 ALDS series.

On a Sunday afternoon (gametime start 4pm) at Rogers Center in Toronto — aka the House of Horrors for NY.

“They obviously had a really good approach; they were on a lot of my pitches,” said Fried afterwards. “Credit to them; I didn’t get it done. It’s a good ballclub. You hope that more balls go to our guys and be able to get some outs and get some momentum, but they stuck with it and put together good at bats. Stuff was good; felt like I was putting the ball in good places too.”

“Nasty stuff; that split is unlike much you ever run into,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards about Yesavage. “He had it going. Starting it up a lot, breaking it down off the plate; using his fastball and slider enough. But we just didn’t have an answer for the split. He was on his game.”

“I think it comes down to the funky release, and just kind of playing it off that fastball in,” said Ben Rice afterwards about Yesavage. “It’s something we weren’t very familiar with.”

1. Yesavage Savages the Yanks

The story from the start was Trey Yesavage — the 22-year-old, 6’4 righty who came up late in the season for Toronto and savaged the competition — including 9 strikeouts in 5 innings in his MLB debut against Tampa on Sept 15, and 5 innings of shutout ball against Tampa in his last start of the season on Sept 27 to clinch the division title for Toronto; it was the talk of baseball that day.

Yesavage started the year in A ball at age 21 and blew thru the minors like it wasn’t there. He was the 20th overall pick in the June 2024 draft, after going 11-1 2.03 at East Carolina University as a senior (he went 7-1 2.61 as a junior).

Given the Game 2 ALDS start, Yesavage savaged the Yankees under the bright lights (and sunshine) of the MLB playoffs.

He struck out Trent Grisham to start the game, walked Aaron Judge, then struck out Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice.

Yesavage struck out Giancarlo Stanton to start the 2nd, then got fly out and line out to retire the side 1-2-3, and then struck out the side in the 3rd and the fourth — 6 straight strikeouts.

By that time he was pitching with a 5-0 lead.

By the 5th he was up 11-0, and appeared to allow a hit when Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached on a 1-out infield grounder. But they ruled it an error on Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and so Yesavage still had a no hitter going. He then got a foul out and strike out to end the inning.

Yesavage got Austin Wells to pop out to start the 6th and left at 78 pitches and with a 12-0 lead.

His line: 5.1 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs, 11 K’s, 1 walk.

2. Fried Fried — Knocked Out by the 4th

Meanwhile Max Fried was getting knocked around from the start. He allowed consecutive 1-out singles in the 1st, but got a double play to end the inning.

But Daulton Varsho led off the 2nd with a double to right, and Ernie Clement smacked a ball just over the left field wall for a 2-0 Toronto lead.

Fried got the next 3 batters to end the 2nd, but with 1 out in the 3rd, he walked Davis Schneider, allowed a single to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and a groundout to Alejandro Kirk and it was 3-0 Toronto.

Had he gotten the 3rd out it would not have been so bad — but a 2-out RBI double by Daulton Varsho and RBI single by Ernie Clement made it 5-0 and game seemingly over.

Fried allowed a leadoff single to Andres Gimenez to start the 4th, then walked Myles Straw and was yanked — Toronto up 5-0 with 2 runners on and nobody out.

3. Warren Fried Too

In came Will Warren like the 7th Cavalry — Custer’s 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn.

Warren walked George Springer to load the bases, struck out Davis Schneider, but coughed up a Grand Slam to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and it was 9-0 Toronto.

Warren then allowed a single to Alejandro Kirk, and a 2-run HR to Daulton Varsho and it was 11-0.

4. Yanks Break Thru As Soon As Yesavage Leaves in 6th

Toronto relieved Yesavage at 78 pitches with 1 out in the 5th, up 12-0, and brought in 6’2 lefty Justin Bruihl.

And the Yankees pounced.

Bruihl got Trent Grisham to ground out, but Aaron Judge broke up the no hitter with an infield single.

Next batter Cody Bellinger ripped a 2-run HR to right. Toronto 12 NY 2.

Ben Rice then singled and Bruihl was yanked for 6’4 righty Braydon Fisher, who coughed up a double to Giancarlo Stanton, before striking out Jazz Chisholm Jr. to end the inning.

5.  Yanks Score 5 in 7th

Up 13-2, Toronto brought in lefty Eric Lauer to pitch the top of the 7th — and the Yanks pounced some more.

Ryan McMahon led off with a single, and after Anthony Volpe struck out, Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham ripped consecutive singles to right to load the bases.

The Blue Jays brought in 6’6 righty Tommy Nance, and Aaron Judge met him with a single to right for a run and 13-3 game.

Cody Bellinger hit a sac fly to make it 13-4, and Ben Rice ripped a double to right to make it 13-5.

Giancarlo Stanton singled to left driving in 2 runs to make it 13-7.

And so Toronto brought in 6’2 lefty Mason Fluharty, and he struck out Jazz Chisholm Jr.

6. Warren Gives Length — But Continues to Allow Runs

After the 4th Warren settled down — but still coughed up solo HR’s in the 5th (to George Springer) and 6th (to Varsho) as Toronto took a 13-2 lead.

Warren pitched a shutout 7th after NY had climbed to within 13-7, and got the first 2 outs of the 8th before being relieved by Luke Weaver.

Weaver Gets an Out

Weaver pitched to 1 batter — and got the final out of the 8th: a fly ball by Varsho to left. Boone obviously was looking to have Weaver see some action after his dreadful game 1 performance.

7. Yanks Put 2 on in 9th

Louis Varland pitched the 8th and got the Yanks out 1-2-3, keeping the score 13-7.

Seranthony Domínguez pitched the 9th, and allowed a 1-out walk to Aaron Judge and a 2-out walk to Ben Rice — but struck out Giancarlo Stanton for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401809264

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