The Toronto Blue Jays turned to their rookie phenom for one of the highest leverage innings of the year on Saturday.
Trey Yesavage entered the game in relief to face the top of the Dodgers order in the seventh inning of Game 7, starting with Shohei Ohtani.
Yesavage pitched around the daunting slugger, scattering splitters and sliders outside the zone and walking him on five pitches.
After missing with his first pitch to No. 2 hitter Will Smith, Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk visited the mound to calm the 22-year-old right-hander down.
And it worked, as Yesavage got Smith to fly out before inducing an inning-ending 3-6-3 double play.
Mookie Betts grounded out to short on a Yesavage slider to start the eighth inning, but Max Muncy got a hold of a splitter over the plate for a moonshot home run, cutting the Blue Jays' lead to one.
Yesavage was pitching on only two days' rest after blowing the baseball world away with his record-setting 12-strikeout performance over seven innings in the Blue Jays' Game 5 win.
The East Carolina product started the season at low-A Dunedin and pitched his first game in front of a crowd of 327 people in Jupiter, Fla.
