Jacob Misiorowski already gave Dodgers a blueprint to attack Blue Jays Game 1 starter

2025 was filled with starting pitching debuts for players who certainly look like they're the real deal. The Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski, the Yankees' Cam Schlitter, the Mets' Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong, the Red Sox's Payton Tolle and Connelly Early, and the Blue Jays' Trey Yesavage, Toronto's Game 1 World Series starter, all took the spotlight at points throughout the campaign. When Yesavage, who's outlasted the rest, takes the mound on Friday evening, he'll be the second-youngest pitcher to ever start a World Series game.

It's a lot of pressure for John Schneider to put on his rookie, who had only three regular season starts before he made the Blue Jays' ALDS roster, but Yesavage already no-hit the Yankees over 5 1/3 innings in Game 2 of that series.

His two starts in the ALCS weren't so dominant — he gave up five runs in four innings against the Mariners in Game 2, then two runs in 5 2/3 in Game 6 — but he's already faced two of the toughest lineups in baseball, and the Dodgers shouldn't underestimate him.

However, they've already had one go at a rookie phenom this postseason, when they saw Misiorowski in Game 3 of the NLCS. They could only get one run off of him in his bulk relief appearance, but they were patient. Misiorowski was pulled in the sixth and replaced by Abner Uribe, who almost immediately gave up a run on a botched pickoff attempt.

The Dodgers just waited out Misiorowski, and they can do the same with Yesavage.

Dodgers are more than prepared to face Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage in World Series Game 1

Schneider also hasn't been giving Yesavage a particularly long leash. He probably should've let him keep going in his start against the Yankees, because New York came back from being no-hit to driving in seven runs in late innings (Toronto already had a 12-run lead after destroying Max Fried and Will Warren, so it didn't matter at all, but still).

The chances of Yesavage no-hitting the Dodgers through 5 1/3 are low, but even if they're struggling against him, they just need to put up competitive at-bats and drive his pitch count up to make Schneider (who has been a little trigger-happy with his calls to the bullpen) nervous, and then they can rain hellfire on the Blue Jays' bullpen.

It'd be foolish to underestimate the Blue Jays' lineup, especially with Bo Bichette back after an injury, but having Snell on the mound gives the Dodgers their best chance to pull together an early lead in the series.