Danny Jansenreceiver of Boston Red Soxwill write his name on a unique page in the history of Major League Baseball against the Toronto Blue Jays. Curiously, the antagonist will be the team that debuted him in MLB. There is no doubt that Fenway Park will be in everyone’s eyes.
The Red Sox are not in their best moment. They are still licking their wounds from what happened against Dbacks de Arizona. The sweep they suffered against them could mark the difference between continuing or not in the fight for one of the tickets to Wild Card in American League. By scores of 12-2, 4-1 and 7-5, being Eugenio Suarez his executioner driving in 10 of the runs. The manager himself, Alex Coradefined it as a “monster.”
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There is one week left in August and the Red Sox are beginning to see the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals from afar in the fight for the Wild Card tickets. Not to mention the New York Yankees or the Baltimore Orioles, one of them will be the division champion and the other will have the first wild card ticket.
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Boston did not take advantage of the Twins’ surprising loss at Target Field against the St. Louis Cardinals by two games to one, while the Royals went through the same situation against the Philadelphia Phillies. Before starting Monday’s activity, they are 4.5 games behind.
The Blue Jays will be their opponent throughout the week. There will be five games, although the first will be a continuation of a pending one and that is why Danny Jansen is the protagonist. The player will be the first to play with both teams in the same duel.
Danny Jansen reacts to epic moment
For the Red Sox, it is vital to put behind them what happened against the Dbacks and focus on winning the series against the Blue Jays. One reality is that Toronto is not having its best season, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr is on. While in Blue Jays thinking about making mischief, Danny Jansen reflected on the moment he will immortalize at Fenway Park.
«It’s definitely cool. I’ll appreciate the opportunity to take on one of those crazy things about this game and I’m definitely a rarity.»Danny Jansen said of seeing action against the Blue Jays at the Red Sox catcher position.
To add more anecdotal data to the story, Jansen was at bat with the Blue Jays when the game was stopped. June 26th game. He had a zero-ball, one-strike count against Kutter Crawford in the top of the second inning. Naturally, Toronto will use a pinch hitter to complete the at-bat, but the record for not having two strikes will go to Danny. If there is a strikeout, then the record would go to the Red Sox catcher just like with a hit.
In fact, Jansen will replace for the purposes of the annotations Reese McGuire who is now in Triple A Boston. That’s how curious the game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays will be, which is part of the scheduled doubleheader. In the box score Danny will appear registered in both teams.
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There will be five games against the Blue Jays and then the Red Sox will face the Detroit Tigers, a team that is not in contention for the 2024 season. These will be two key series for the aspirations of Cora and his boys.
Red Sox announce moves
Prior to the scheduled 2:05 p.m. ET makeup game, the Red Sox announced the designation of Joely Rodriguez. The pitcher was put there to make room for fellow pitcher, Brad Keller. It is worth noting that Joely saw action in the series against the Dbacks.
Rodriguez (32 years old) left a 0-1 record with a 5.93 ERA. He stands out for his four preserved leads in 14 games (13.2 innings). With Boston he allowed nine earned runs, two walks and prescribed 12 strikeouts.