A two-month delay for the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox led to an odd moment in baseball history — the first player in Major League Baseball history to compete for both teams in one game.
When the game was first rained out on June 26, catcher Danny Jansen was playing for the Blue Jays. But the Canadian team traded him to the Red Sox for three prospects just a month later.
So when that weather-delayed game picked back up at the top of the second inning on Monday, Jansen was playing against his old team in the same exact game he played two months earlier.
According to the MLB, no other player can claim that particular accomplishment.
Jansen and the Red Sox lost the game 7-3 against his former teammates. Maybe the fact that he achieved a first in major league history will help ease the pain.
The Blue Jays, who drafted Jansen in 2013, posted side-by-side photos of Jansen in both teams’ gear.
“Long at-bat, huh,” the team captioned the post on X.
The MLB’s official account had a few jokes as well, writing “the duality of man” to caption a photo on X of Jansen on the scoreboard.
It wrote in another post: “You win some, you lose some. Just ask Danny Jansen.”
Jansen told reporters that he was surprised to learn he was the first and that it hadn’t fully hit him yet.
“Leaving a stamp like that on the game, it’s strange and it’s interesting,” Jansen said. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to have that. And at the end of the day, it’s a cool thing.”
He added that he “never would have imagined” making history in the sport for this type of situation. Jansen said he wore two jerseys on Monday so he can give an authentic game time uniform to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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