Trey Yesavage pitched the first professional game of both his season and his career back in March in front of a sleepy gathering of 300 people down in Florida in the lowest level of minor league baseball. Article content

On Friday night at the Rogers Centre, the right-handed phenom will throw the first pitch of the 121st World Series in front of roughly 45,000 people at the Rogers Centre and a global television audience in the millions . Article content Article content

Blue Jays manager John Schneider opted to go with the 22-year-old rookie to face the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series. And, with the assignment — in which he’ll face global superstar Shohei Ohtani and the rest of the Dodgers — so continues one of the great stories of the 20

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