Right now the Boston Crimson Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays resumed a sport that was suspended again on June 26, when heavy rain induced the sport to be paused within the second inning. At the moment Danny Jansen was on the plate because the designated hitter for the Blue Jays.
When the sport resumed at the moment, Jansen was once more at residence plate.
Solely he was crouching behind it because the catcher for the Crimson Sox.
Jansen was traded to Boston at MLB’s commerce deadline, and with the Crimson Sox then designating backup catcher Reese McGuire for task, that opened up a chance for Boston, and Jansen, to make some peculiar baseball historical past.
Which they did at the moment, as Jansen grew to become the primary MLB participant in historical past to look in a single sport for each groups.
The MLB shared this unimaginable picture of Jansen warming up for the sport in his new Crimson Sox uniform, whereas the scoreboard confirmed him on the plate for the Blue Jays:
In the meantime, Boston’s social media staff had somewhat enjoyable with the second:
After lining out in his first at-bat, Jansen singled for the Crimson Sox within the fifth inning.
Boston supervisor Alex Cora confirmed that Jansen could be within the lineup for at the moment’s resumed sport on Friday, noting the state of affairs.
“Yeah he’s catching. Let’s make historical past,” Cora told reporters last week.
Historical past, made.
