Blue Jays Blank Red Sox 3-0 in Yesavage Debut

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage delivered a strong season debut with five and one-third shutout innings Tuesday night, leading his team to a 3-0 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox at Rogers Centre.

The win evened the three-game series at one game apiece after Boston's 5-0 triumph in Monday's opener. Yesavage, a 22-year-old right-hander who began the season on the injured list with a right shoulder impingement, allowed four hits, walked none and struck out three while throwing 74 pitches, 50 for strikes. He departed to a standing ovation in the sixth inning following a strikeout of Willson Contreras. The Blue Jays bullpen preserved the shutout with three and two-thirds hitless innings: Mason Fluharty recorded the final two outs of the sixth, Jeff Hoffman pitched a perfect seventh with two strikeouts, Tyler Rogers tossed a scoreless eighth and Louis Varland earned his fourth save.

Kazuma Okamoto provided the early offense with a two-run single in the third inning. Andres Gimenez led off with a single, advanced to third on Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s two-out double and both scored on Okamoto's line drive off the wall in left field. Guerrero, who finished with two hits,...