A two-month delay for the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox led to an odd second in baseball historical past: the primary participant in Main League Baseball historical past to compete for each groups in a single recreation.
When the sport was first rained out June 26, catcher Danny Jansen was enjoying for the Blue Jays. However the Canadian staff traded him to the Purple Sox for 3 prospects only a month later.
So when that weather-delayed recreation picked again up on the high of the second inning Monday, Jansen was enjoying in opposition to his outdated staff in the identical actual recreation he performed two months earlier.
According to MLB, no different participant can declare that exact accomplishment.
Jansen and the Purple Sox misplaced the sport 4-1 in opposition to his former teammates. Possibly the truth that he achieved a primary in main league historical past will assist ease the ache.
The Blue Jays, who drafted Jansen in 2013, posted side-by-side images of Jansen in each groups’ gear.
“Lengthy at-bat, huh,” the staff captioned the publish on X.
MLB’s official account had a number of jokes, as nicely, writing “the duality of man” to caption a photograph on X of Jansen on the scoreboard.
It wrote in another post: “You win some, you lose some. Simply ask Danny Jansen.”
Jansen informed reporters that he was stunned to be taught he was the primary and that it hadn’t absolutely hit him but.
“Leaving a stamp like that on the sport, it’s unusual and it’s fascinating,” Jansen mentioned. “I’m grateful for the chance to have that. And on the finish of the day, it’s a cool factor.”
He added that he “by no means would have imagined” making historical past within the sport for this sort of scenario. Jansen mentioned he wore two jerseys on Monday so he may give an genuine game-time uniform to the Baseball Corridor of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
CORRECTION (Aug. 27, 2024, 5 p.m. ET): A earlier model of this text misstated the ultimate rating of the sport through which Danny Jansen performed on each groups. It was 4-1 Toronto over Boston, not 7-3.
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