Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

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October 30, 2025 Trey Yesavage dominates Dodgers: 'Hollywood couldn't have made it this good
Guests: Max Scherzer, Jeff Hoffman, Braydon Fisher, Joey Loperfido

Trey Yesavage made history with his performance in Game 5 of the World Series, sending the Blue Jays home to Toronto with a chance to win the whole shebang on Friday night. The 22-year-old broke his own Jays post-season record with 12 strikeouts and set or tied at least four other post-season or World Series records.

We discuss it all with a quartet of Jays who all watched Yesavage with different perspectives.

Max Scherzer is the Hall of Famer-to-be with 18 years in the bigs, seeing a kid with a month and a half in the majors do things he's never done. Jeff Hoffman, a Jays' first-round pick exactly a decade before Yesavage, watched from the bullpen. Braydon Fisher, voted the Jays' rookie of the year this season, was a big-leaguer four months before Yesavage and talks about their shared rookiedom in the Jays' clubhouse. And Joey Loperfido saw this coming.

And as always, a dip into the mailbag at [email protected]!
48 min
October 29, 2025 Blue Jays win back home field advantage and make it a best of three
The baseball season is going to end in Toronto this year. The Blue Jays assured that there will be at least a Game 6 of the World Series, to be played at Rogers Centre Friday night, with their come-from-behind 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4, a game that started barely 17 hours after the 18-inning marathon Game 3 finished. In this episode of Deep Left Field, we'll hear from winning pitcher Shane Bieber, who held the Dodgers to one run into the sixth, striking out Shohei Ohtani twice, and we'll open up the mailbag at [email protected]!
29 min
October 28, 2025 Blue Jays lose to Dodgers in 6-hour, 39-minute, 18-inning World Series heartbreaker in La La Land
Guests: Eric Lauer, Kevin Gausman The Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers played 18 innings of World Series baseball over more than six and a half hours Monday night (and Tuesday morning!), tying the longest game in Fall Classic history, and the Dodgers came out on top thanks to a Freddie Freeman home run. We talk to Eric Lauer, who provided 4 2/3 innings of shutout relief - part of 10 straight shutout innings by the Jays' bullpen - and to Kevin Gausman, one of only three players on the Jays' roster who didn't participate in the game. Also, the mailbag returns at [email protected]!
27 min
October 26, 2025 Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates Blue Jays in Game 2
Guest: Nathan Lukes The Blue Jays were utterly dominated by Los Angeles Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 2 of the World Series, losing 5-1 and having the last 20 hitters in a row retired. Not only did Yamamoto take out the Jays' bats, he apparently took my voice, too, but Deep Left Field will always be here for you. Nathan Lukes, one of the four Jays to actually manage a hit on Saturday, joins me to talk about how sometimes the other guy is just better. Also, we open the mailbag at [email protected] so that you can have your voices heard, even if you can't really hear mine.
17 min
October 25, 2025 Blue Jays send a message to the Dodgers and the baseball world with an 11-4 win in Game 1
Guests: Addison Barger, Bo Bichette, Ernie Clement

The Blue Jays not only won the opener of the MLB Fall Classic on Friday, they sent a firm message to the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers that Toronto is not going to be just another pit stop on their road to a repeat. The fans also sent a firm message to Shohei Ohtani when he came to bat in the ninth inning, chanting, "We don't need you!"

The Jays exploded for the biggest single inning in a World Series game since 1968, scoring nine runs in the sixth. Bo Bichette, playing for the first time in seven weeks, started that inning with a walk. Ernie Clement gave the Jays the lead with an RBI single three batters later and later still, Addison Barger clubbed the first-ever pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history. All three Blue Jays join us in Deep Left Field to talk about the big game. Plus, we open the mailbag at [email protected]!!
30 min
October 24, 2025 Listen: On the start of the World Series, we take a deep dive back into the Blue Jays Game 7 win of the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners
Guests: Blue Jays Shane Bieber, Ernie Clement, Kevin Gausman, Daulton Varsho and Mike Cieslinski of Dynasty League Baseball

With the Blue Jays about to begin their first World Series since 1993, we look back to their thrilling Game 7 of the American League championship series against the Seattle Mariners and ahead to the opener of the Fall Classic.

We hear from Shane Bieber, who started Game 7 and Kevin Gausman, who got the win in relief, as they celebrated that great night, and then talk to Ernie Clement about the Jays' quiet confidence and Daulton Varsho about his memories of playing at Dodger Stadium when he was with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Also, Mike Cieslinski of Dynasty League Baseball Powered by Pursue The Pennant joins us to discuss a Jays-Dodgers World Series simulation. All that and we dip into the mailbag at [email protected].
50 min
October 23, 2025 All-Star fan panel Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Nick Dika and Clare Blackwood are fired up about the American League Champion Blue Jays
Guests: Clare Blackwood, Nick Dika, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee With the start of the World Series only one day away, we gather a panel of Canadian stars of stage and screen to look back at the Blue Jays win over the Seattle Mariners in the American League and look ahead at the Fall Classic against the heavily-favoured Los Angeles Dodgers. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, star of Kim's Convenience, the Mandalorian, Avatar: The Last Airbender and more, Nick Dika of Arkells and Clare Blackwood of The Beaverton join me to discuss all the tension and excitement of the playoff chase, the biggest moments of the hard-fought series with Seattle and what they hope for from the Jays in their first World Series appearance in 32 years. It's a fantastic conversation with Jays fans from the entertainment world and, as always, we open up the mailbag!
55 min
October 22, 2025 Listen: Blue Jays Max Scherzer, manager John Schneider and Jose Bautista discuss this team and that magical home run
Guests: Max Scherzer, John Schneider, Jose Bautista As we await Friday night's opener of the World Series, the first in Toronto in over three decades, we look back at the post-game party after the Blue Jays thrilling win in Game 7 of the American League championship series Monday night. Max Scherzer, never at a loss for energy, nearly blows the decibel meter on our system as he raves about the team he chose because, as he said in January, he wanted to win the World Series, and about his fellow elder statesmen, George Springer, Chris Bassitt and Kevin Gausman (each one at least five years his junior). John Schneider, in his third full season as Jays' manager but his 24th year in the organization, wells up as he talks about coaches Don Mattingly, Pete Walker and DeMarlo Hale, and wishes the Seattle Mariners a good winter vacation. And a raspy-voiced Jose Bautista joins us to talk about witnessing Springer's magical home run, as so many of us witnessed his a decade ago. All that plus the mailbag at [email protected]!
50 min
October 21, 2025 Touch 'em all, George! For the first time in 32 years, the World Series is coming to Toronto
Guests: Game 7 hero George Springer, Game 7 closer Jeff Hoffman For the first time in 32 years, the World Series is coming to Toronto. The Blue Jays won the pennant, dropping the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in a winner-take-all Game 7 of the American League championship series on a dramatic three-run home run by George Springer, bringing them back from a 3-1 deficit. After Springer went deep, Chris Bassitt pitched a perfect eighth and Jeff Hoffman struck out the side in order in the ninth to secure the victory, sending the Jays to the Fall Classic for the first time since 1993. Both Springer and Hoffman join us from the post-game celebrations to talk about the historic win and this incredible Jays team, one that picked up its 101st win of the season on Monday night and will now take on the reigning champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in a World Series that begins at Rogers Centre on Friday night. The mailbag will be back tomorrow, so send your thoughts to [email protected].
36 min
October 21, 2025 Bonus: Blue Jays are ALCS Champs
We come to you live from the turf, deep in feft field, following the celebrations after the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in dramatic fashion to advance to the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
3 min

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Longtime Toronto Blue Jays radio voice Mike Wilner hosts Deep Left Field, a baseball podcast from the Toronto Star. With great baseball coverage, opinion and analysis, Deep Left Field has everything…