When that befuddling splitter goes rickety …

Five runs charged in four innings plus two batters. A cornucopia of runs surrendered on Thanksgiving Monday.

Not that young pitching phenom Trey Yesavage has suddenly gone from cocky to cockeyed. But his aura of invincibility, touched by precocious brilliance in both his Major League Baseball debut and his post-season debut across less than a month, took it on the chin in Game 2 of the American League championship series.

It was bound to happen, of course, some of the cheeky peach fuzz fizz of wonder boy meets MLB shaved off by the reality of this humbling sport. Yet the Blue Jays, in what was arguably the closest thing to a must-win game thus far in the playoffs, had absolute faith in their 22-year-old amazeballs starter. Baseball

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