"His disgusting splitter, thrown from approximately the tropopause, induced seven swing-and-misses against just one ball in play; his slider, thrown from the same preposterous arm angle, induced a whopping 14 swing-and-misses. Just three of Yesavage's 104 pitches were hit hard and in play, per Statcast. One of them, launched by Kiké Hernandez into the stands in left in the bottom of the third inning, accounted for Yesavage's only run allowed in seven innings."
"They'd lost a surreal Game 3 in which Shohei Ohtani socked two dingers and two doubles and reached base nine times in nine plate appearances, which has never happened before and is not likely to ever happen again, unless Ohtani someday does it himself. In their own wins, the Blue Jays had been normal-admirably normal-out there doing normal baseball things, simply put together in the right sequences."
Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered nine dominant innings in Game 2, a level of World Series pitching not seen since before Sputnik. Shohei Ohtani produced a surreal Game 3, hitting two homers and two doubles and reaching base nine times in nine plate appearances. The Blue Jays' victories came from conventional, well-sequenced baseball rather than singular feats. Rookie Trey Yesavage dominated Game 5 with 12 strikeouts, the most by a rookie in a World Series game, using a towering splitter and a preposterous-angle slider to generate numerous swing-and-misses. Statcast shows only three of his 104 pitches were hit hard and in play.
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