Yesavage fans 11 in playoff debut, Blue Jays roll

TORONTO -- Rookie Trey Yesavage acceptable a Blue Jays postseason grounds by striking retired 11 successful 5 1/3 no-hit innings, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. deed the archetypal postseason expansive slam successful squad past and Toronto bushed the New York Yankees 13-7 connected Sunday to instrumentality a 2-0 pb successful the ALDS.

Daulton Varsho had 2 location runs among his 4 other basal hits, and Ernie Clement and George Springer besides some homered arsenic Toronto reached treble figures successful hits (15) and runs for the 2nd consecutive game.

The Blue Jays had 3 location runs among their 14 hits Saturday successful a 10-1 victory. They person arsenic galore location runs (eight) arsenic strikeouts (seven) done 2 games.

Varsho went 4 for 5 with 2 doubles, scored 4 runs and drove successful four. Guerrero went 3 for 5 and scored twice.

Cody Bellinger homered and drove successful 3 runs and Ben Rice had 2 hits and 2 RBIs successful a five-run seventh but Toronto won for the eighth clip successful 9 location meetings with New York. The Blue Jays went 2-4 successful six games astatine Yankee Stadium, wherever the bid shifts for Game 3 connected Tuesday night.

Yesavage (1-0) was selected by Toronto with the No. 20 prime past twelvemonth successful the amateur draft. The 22-year-old right-hander roseate done 4 insignificant league levels this play earlier joining the Blue Jays and going 1-0 successful 3 September starts.

Yesavage needed less than 4 innings to bushed Toronto's erstwhile grounds for postseason strikeouts, eight, held by Dave Steib, David Price (twice) and Juan Guzman.

"It's evidently a large stage," Toronto manager John Schneider told FOX during his in-game interview. "[A] 22-year aged kid, he's throwing strikes and truly commanding everything truly well."

Known for his elite split-finger fastball, Yesavage acceptable a Blue Jays grounds by striking retired 9 Rays batters successful his Sept. 15 debut. Eight of his 11 strikeouts Sunday came connected the splitter. The different 3 came connected fastballs that reached 96 mph.

Yesavage opened the crippled by striking retired Trent Grisham connected a splitter. He walked Aaron Judge connected 4 pitches, past fanned Bellinger and Rice to commencement a streak of 12 consecutive outs that ended erstwhile Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached connected Guerrero's fielding mistake successful the fifth.

"It was nasty stuff," New York manager Aaron Boone said of Yesavage's arsenal. "That divided is dissimilar astir of the worldly you'd ever tally into. He had it going. ... We conscionable didn't person an reply for that split. He was connected his game."

Yesavage responded by getting Ryan McMahon to popular up and fanning Anthony Volpe for his 11th strikeout.

Yesavage struck retired six consecutive implicit the 3rd and 4th innings arsenic Volpe, Austin Wells, Grisham, Judge, Bellinger and Rice were retired.

Left-hander Justin Bruihl came connected to look Grisham aft Yesavage threw 78 pitc...