Blue Jays nearing first World Series championship since 1993! | Morning Lineup (MLB Daily Recap)

12 to freeman. There’s a dozen for Trey Savage. What a performance so far from Trey Savage from mlb.com. This is the Morning Lineup podcast. I’m your host, Mandy Bell. Today is Thursday, October 30th and the Blue Jays are in position to pull off the ultimate upset to prove once again that David can beat Goliath to win their first World Series title in more than three decades. But that last win can be the hardest to get. We’ll recap the historic performances from the Toronto offense and starter Trey Savage that put them in this position. We’ll preview what’s to come in game six on Halloween night and as always, we’ll do it all in under 10 minutes. Let’s get to it. There’s so much to say about Trey Savage that we kind of just need to get the offense talk out of the way to focus on the star of the show. And when a game starts like this , it’s really telling that this isn’t the biggest talking point game five with a fastball that hit in the air to left field on the first pitch of that was the very first pitch of the game off Blake Snell of all pitchers. Sure. The Blue Jays got to him in game one a few days ago. But before that, Snell had been excellent this postseason, he told the media on Tuesday that he learned a lot from the mistakes he made in game one and was ready to rediscover that dominance in game five yet one pitch into the game. And David Schneider’s dad was left jumping for joy in the stands watching his son set the tone for the Blue Jays. 00, no, no way, no way. One mistake. Now, that’s nothing sure. The Dodgers would rather have set the tone themselves, but this is something that you can easily overcome. But Then Vladimir guerrero Junior came to the plate and the ballfield back to the, it is good. It in the first and in three pitches, the Blue Jays lead 23 pitches, two homers a first inning. No one would have predicted, especially with typical leadoff hitter, George Springer on the bench with an oblique injury. This is the first time in World Series history that a team has hit back to back home runs to lead off a game. The only other team in postseason history with back to back homers to lead off a game was the 2002 A’s in the A L Ds. And for Vlad, that was his eighth homer of the 2025 playoffs that’s tied for the second most in a single postseason. In MLB history trailing J Randy Arosa Reyna’s 10 in 2020. Add an Enrique Hernandez homer in the third and Ernie Clements sacrifice fly in the fourth, a run scoring wild pitch. A BRB I single in the seventh and an RB I single by Isaiah kiner FPA in the eighth and you get a 6 to 1 game five victory for the Blue Jays. But the real star that was your savage. We have so much to say about this rookie after the break jump in the fifth, swing up, double play the World Series masterpiece from 22 year old Savage. I know we’ve said this before, but it has to be said again. Just take a moment to process the year that your Savage has had. He made his professional debut, not major league debut but professional baseball debut in April in single a last season. He was pitching for East Carolina. He made brief stops at all four minor league levels before quickly making his big league debut just last month. Three regular season starts was all he needed to be trusted to get the ball in the playoffs. He was the World Series game one starter. He did just enough to help his team get a win that day, but on Wednesday, he truly shined 12 pitch swing and a miss strike three, a dozen cases for your Savage, seven innings, three hits, one run on a solo homer. 12 strikeouts and zero Watts, talk about a performance of a lifetime and thanks to some Sarah Lang stats, we can prove it was exactly that a performance of a lifetime. This was the first time a rookie struck out 12 batters in a World Series game in MB history. And let’s just forget that rookie title. This was the most strikeouts by any pitcher ever in the world series with zero walks ridiculous. The only pitchers to have double digit strikeouts through five innings in multiple postseason games are Trey Yage and Garrett Cole Yage is the first to do so twice in the same postseason. And finally, Yage induced 23 swings and misses. That’s the most in a world series by any pitcher since 2008 when pitch tracking began. Now with all of this, think of all the savage puns, our friend Anthony Kervin would be rattling off right now. I’ll spare you but Savage walked off the mound after an inning ending double play in the seventh inning and was greeted with hugs by everyone in the Toronto dugout manager john Schneider was first in line at the end of the row was Vlad Junior who wrapped his arms around him in a bear hug fashion , a performance that you savage nor his family will forget any time soon. Crazy world Hollywood couldn’t have made it this good. So, um, just being a part of this, I’m just very blessed walking from the bullpen to the dugout. I took a moment to look around the stadium, see all the fans I wanted to, to, I was, I was hoping I’d send them home uh upset. But uh yeah, it was, it was just a cool, like full circle moment and now it all comes down to Halloween night. The Dodgers chance to repeat as World Series champions is on the line. The Blue Jays first championship title since 1993 is well within reach, the two teams will take today to travel across the continent to Toronto as the Canada faithful. We hope to see a celebration in the middle of the Rogers center on Friday. But if you’re the Dodgers with your back against the wall, is there anyone you’d rather turn to than Yoshinobu Yamamoto go to pitch, popped up left side, young distance again. World Series mastery Yoshinobu Yamamoto game two of the World Series against the Blue Jays has throw a complete game, retiring the final 20 that he faces. Yamamoto has been a workhorse for the Dodgers this postseason. He turned in a complete game in each of his last two outings just two days after his latest nine inning performance. He told his manager he was ready and willing to pitch in relief as a marathon game reached the 18th inning, the guy is a machine and it will come down to him and the Dodgers to force a game seven opposing Yamamoto will be Toronto’s Kevin Gossman , the team’s ace as confident as L A will be sending Yamamoto to the rubber. The Blue Jays will feel the same Gausman, he’s been as consistent as you could ask for this postseason and for a team that went 54 and 27 at home this year , getting back to Toronto and sending your ace to the mound in a clinching scenario is as perfect of a script as one could write up and don’t forget game used baseballs bases and more are now live on auction from the 2025 World Series items are collected right off of the field with new auctions added after each game, own a piece of World Series history by bidding at mlb.com/world Series auction. That’s all for today’s morning lineup. Will leach will be back with you tomorrow to make sure you have all the information that you need to be ready for game six of the World Series tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Fox. As always, please be sure to give us a rating and a review and share this episode with the baseball lovers in your life. Thanks for listening and enjoy the final days of the 2025 baseball season.

All of the important storylines from 10/29/2025 across MLB including: Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hitting back-to-back home runs to open the game vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers, rookie Trey Yesavage cementing his Postseason legacy with the Toronto Blue Jays, and previewing the series as it returns to Rogers Centre on Friday.

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