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Yesavage was just asked by reporters how he'll manage the pressure of being starting pitcher for Game 1 tomorrow.

"I try to treat it as if it's not as high-pressure as it is, mentally. But I know it's there, so I think I've just developed [how I manage pressure] over time," he said.

Yesavage, at the age of 22, will be the second youngest starting pitcher in Game 1 of the World Series, according to MLB.com.

The youngest was the Dodgers’ Ralph Branca, at 21, in 1947.

Perhaps more incredibly, Yesavage didn’t start the season in the major leagues — he was with the Jays minor league Single-A Dunedin affiliate.

And he has only three regular-season starts, MLB.com noted. (He started and won Game 6 of the ALCS against the Mariners.)

George Springer, whose Game 7 home-run blast helped catapult the Jays into the World Series, says he hasn’t really had time to reflect on that moment.

He said he’s focused on the series ahead.

“Once it’s all said and done, I’ll look back on it and do some reflecting at some point.”

With tickets to World Series games in Toronto selling for thousands of dollars more than the original cost, the Ontario New Democratic Party is calling on the government to pass legislation that would ban marking up the price of resale tickets.

My colleague in Toronto Oskar McCarson just wrote about a motion put forward by the NDP.

It looks to update the Ticket Sales Act to combat fraud and predatory pricing by banning the sale of tickets above face value, but did not mention how this policy would be enforced.

'That is a beatable baseball team,' Blue Jays manager says of Dodgers

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider was asked ahead of the World Series about some people framing the matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers as a David vs. Goliath situation — a categorization he rejects, saying his team is ready to face off against, 'what is, on paper, the best team in baseball.'

Schneider was asked nigh the saint st. David vs. Goliath scenario, with the Jays viewed as the underdogs (the diminutive David) in this serial, as they human face the defending champion Dodgers (the gigantic Goliath).

Schnieder said he sees it as the “two best teams left standing” and that there’s a “reason we’re here [and a] reason they’re here.”

He said he doesn’t necessarily view the Dodgers as Goliath, as they have their strengths and weaknesses.

(Note: The biblical Goliath had his weakness too, felled by David’s slingshot.)

Schneider says that'll be up to Bichette.

"It's a little bit of a leap, yeah, for sure. I think just in conversations with Bo, he's pretty realistic about how he feels and how he will feel if he's out there," Schneider said. "If he feels comfortable doing it, you know, I'm going to listen to players and trust them."

Bichette said earlier this week he'd be ready to return to the Jays’ roster for the World Series.

It would be a huge boost for the team, which has played without the star shortstop for six weeks due to a left knee injury.

The two-time American League hits leader and two-time all-star didn't give much away in an interview with MLB Network after Monday night's victory over the Mariners, saying only, “I'll be ready,” and “I’m good.”

Schneider says Trey Yesavage will be the starting pitcher for Game 1. The rookie won the 2025 season in the low minors, and is now the starting pitcher for the World Series.

He was selected by Toronto with the No. 20 pick in last year's amateur draft.

Schneider is answering journalists' questions. He started off speaking about how fortunes changed for his team this season.

"We always had confidence, but you look around and say, OK, something's moving in the right direction here," Schneider said.

To most Blue Jays fans, George Springer is best known for "Springer dingers" — a reliable force at bat and a mentor to younger players.

But to kids and adults who stutter, including an estimated 400,000 Canadians, Springer is something else: a person just like them, whose success and self-acceptance offers hope.

Connecticut-born Springer called his childhood stutter "extremely isolating” and “debilitating." In this ESPN piece, you can see a young Springer stuttering as he opens Christmas gifts in a family video.

Springer still stutters in adulthood, but it's tough to notice in his frequent media interviews and news conferences. He's had coaching and therapy, but also credits the sheer confidence and joy he has when playing baseball — the ability to be seen and loved as his true, authentic self — with lessening the effects of the speech condition.

Springer has since become the spokesperson for SAY: the U.S.-based Stuttering Association for the Young. He also takes time to meet with kids who stutter.

One young fan living in California has so far met him twice, most recently in Toronto, by holding up a sign that said "George, I stutter too."

Blue Jays superfan Stephen Darling was lucky enough to be inside Rogers Centre for Game 7 Friday night. He went by himself, but he says he felt far from alone.

“Toronto has a great, great heart, and everything about it was incredible.”

Despite being up late Monday, Darling says he was up bright and early Tuesday morning to score tickets to Game 1 of the World Series. He says there were 25,000 people in the queue ahead of him online, but he still managed to grab two tickets to Friday’s game.

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