Trey Yesavage’s Blue Jays teammates let him down to ruin stats in ugly inning originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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Trey Yesavage did his job, getting a weak popup with two outs in the sixth and a one-run lead on Monday.
The Toronto Blue Jays defense behind him didn’t come through, though, and the inning ended up spiraling.
Yesavage had only given up one earned run to that point. His final stat line included five earned runs allowed.
The Miami Marlins went from behind to in front, and Yesavage’s day had been pretty much ruined.
The rules around baseball scoring make no sense.
Yesavage should have been at 6 IP, 1 ER, 72 pitches.
Instead, it’s 6 IP, 5 ER, 87 pitches at the conclusion of that inning. pic.twitter.com/qJ6RUyCH3E
— Chris Black (@DownToBlack) May 26, 2026
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The reality is that, by baseball’s long-lasting scorekeeping rules, there was no error on the above play.
But it’s also a tricky statistical reality, in the old-school stats, that what happened in the above clip is considered something Yesavage is responsible for.
The outfielder gets a terrible jump and struggles to put even a mediocre attempt in at actually catching the ball, instead kicking it away in the process.
Yesavage’s advanced stats will reflect that he got weak contact, and the Blue Jays will know he put together a good start even though it didn’t end well.
But in the realm of exiting the game with a lead, it’s still immensely frustrating for Yesavage. When a pitcher makes his pitch, he wants to be rewarded, and that’s not at all what happened for the young righty on Monday.
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