"In the bottom of the fourth Yesavage struck out Josh Lowe, Jake Mangum, and Nick Fortes in order. He threw a splitter, a four-seam fastball and a slider to dispose of Lowe. Mangum then looked at a four-seam fastball, before swinging and missing at back-to-back splitters - which was Yesavage's best pitch on the evening."
"Then with Forte up to bat Yesavage got a called strike on the four-seam fastball, before throwing a second one at 94.7 mph that caught the bottom of the zone on the middle part of the plate. That pitch was called a ball. Yesavage then threw back-to-back splitters that got two more swinging strikes to set down Fortes to end the inning."
"There have only been 117 immaculate innings thrown in MLB history and only seven times has an immaculate inning been thrown by a rookie pitcher. Never, according to this writers research, has an immaculate inning been thrown by a pitcher in their MLB debut. Yesavage, could have and maybe should have, been the first. But alas, controversial umpire Laz Diaz took that opportunity away."
Trey Yesavage pitched five innings in his MLB debut for the Toronto Blue Jays, allowing three hits, one earned run, two walks and striking out nine hitters. The nine strikeouts are the most by a Blue Jays starting pitcher in an MLB debut. In the bottom of the fourth he struck out Josh Lowe, Jake Mangum and Nick Fortes in order, using a splitter as his best pitch. He recorded three strikeouts on ten pitches in that inning, but an eighth pitch that caught the bottom of the zone was called a ball by umpire Laz Diaz, denying an immaculate inning. There have been 117 immaculate innings in MLB history, seven by rookies, and none in an MLB debut.
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