Danny Jansen will be part of a historic event in Major League Baseball this Monday when the Boston Red Sox face the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park. The catcher He will be the first MLB player to play the same game for two different teams..
The baseball player He began the 2024 Major League campaign with the Toronto organization, but arrived in Boston via trade on July 27.. Now everything becomes unreal. A month earlier, on June 26, Red Sox y Blue Jays They faced each other at the home of the Red Sox, but the game was suspended in the second inning due to rain that delayed the game for almost two hours.
When this game resumes on Monday, Danny Jansen, who was AT the plate for the Blue Jays when the game was suspended, will be BEHIND the plate for the Red Sox while a pinch-hitter takes over his PA…making him the first player in MLB history to play for both teams in the same game pic.twitter.com/Y0UMVakx6S
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Jansen was the Jays’ starting catcher in that game, but now holds that same position in the Boston organization. The Canadian team will have to replace its former catcher with a pinch hitter when the match resumes.
The fact that Jansen will play for the Red Sox this game is inevitable.e. Boston sent Reese McGuire, who was the starting catcher in the June 26 game, to the minor leagues after making the trade with the Canadians. In addition, Alex Cora, the Boston team’s manager, said that the 29-year-old player will do his job as a catcher.
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Danny Jansen was in the batter’s box
This story never ceases to be incredible. The Blue Jays will have to make the substitution immediately upon the restart of the game because Jansen was in his first at-bat.. The then-Toronto catcher had Davis Schneider at first base and his first pitch had been a foul ball.
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