The legend of Trey Yesavage continued to grow in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday.
Yesavage struck out a World Series rookie-record 12 Los Angeles Dodgers batters in Game 5, breaking the old mark set by Dodgers great Don Newcombe in Game 1 of the 1949 Fall Classic. He and Newcombe are the only rookie pitchers to log double-digit strikeouts in a World Series game.
The Toronto Blue Jays right-hander set the new record with a seventh-inning strikeout of Freddie Freeman on a splitter.
Yesavage is the 12th pitcher to record 12-plus strikeouts in a World Series game, and the first since the Yankees' Orlando Hernández in 2000, per Stathead. He's one of just five pitchers to do it in the last 50 years. His 12 Ks without a walk also set a new single-game World Series mark, surpassing Newcombe in '49 and Clayton Kershaw in Game 1 of the 2017 edition.