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Blue Jays manager John Schneider leaned on his encyclopedic recall and lessons from past October missteps to trust a screaming Max Scherzer during Thursday’s 8-2 Game 4 win in Seattle. Rather than pull the veteran, Schneider let him finish the fifth and return, a call shaped by early-season meetings about managing people as much as numbers. The decision, celebrated afterward, reflects Schneider’s evolution and has Toronto within two wins of the World Series. He says he’ll live with real-time choices—and keep learning from them—because, as he puts it, this game is so hard.

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