An October dream

 Imagine you are Trey Yesavage this morning, just for a moment. 

Imagine you are 22 years and three months old, and you are from Pottstown, Pa., and, dang, you've only been up with the big club for six weeks. That was mid-September, and  you were pitching in Buffalo for the Triple-A (and grammatically incorrect) Bisons. A month and change before that, you were in Manchester, N.H., pitching for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats against the likes of the Chesapeake Baysox.

Before that, you were in Vancouver. And before that -- not quite seven months ago -- you were in A-ball in Dunedin, Fla., a resort town on the Gulf of Mexico hard by Clearwater and Tampa.

Now?

Now you're no longer Trey Yesavage, Dunedin Blue Jay. Now you're Trey Yesavage of the Toronto Blue Jays, and a World Series hero.

Six days ago the Blue Jays handed you the ball and said "Go get 'em, kid," and there you were, starting Game 1 of the World Series against, no, not the Chesapeake Baysox, but the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. And somehow you did OK. 

Pitched four innings. Struck out five. Gave up a couple of earned runs. Didn't get the win, but the Blue Jays did, 11-4.

Five days later the Jays handed Trey Yesavage the ball again, and this is where it all becomes some backyard October dream. This time Yesavage went seven innings, struck out an astonishing 12 Dodgers -- a World Series record for a rookie pitcher -- and got the W that sends the Series back to Toronto with the Blue Jays leading three-games-to-two.

It was, amazingly, less than 48 hours after Freddie Freeman's walk-off home run in the 18th inning gave the Dodgers the lead in the Series, with two more home games to follow. But over the last two nights the Jays have outscored the home nine 12-3, outhit them 20-10, and now they have two home games to wrap it up.

And all, or at least partly, because of a 22-year-old from Pottstown, Pa., who'd never started a major-league game until Sept. 15, and who'd pitched just 14 innings in the bigs when the playoffs began.

Imagine you are Trey Yesavage this morning. Just for a moment.

Close your eyes. Empty your mind.

Dream his dream.