Right now the Boston Pink Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays resumed a recreation that was suspended again on June 26, when heavy rain precipitated 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 as we speak, Jansen was once more at house plate.
Solely he was crouching behind it because the catcher for the Pink Sox.
Jansen was traded to Boston at MLB’s commerce deadline, and with the Pink Sox then designating backup catcher Reese McGuire for task, that opened up a possibility for Boston, and Jansen, to make some peculiar baseball historical past.
Which they did as we speak, as Jansen grew to become the primary MLB participant in historical past to look in a single recreation for each groups.
The MLB shared this unbelievable picture of Jansen warming up for the sport in his new Pink Sox uniform, whereas the scoreboard confirmed him on the plate for the Blue Jays:
In the meantime, Boston’s social media crew had a little bit enjoyable with the second:
After lining out in his first at-bat, Jansen singled for the Pink Sox within the fifth inning.
Boston supervisor Alex Cora confirmed that Jansen could be within the lineup for as we speak’s resumed recreation on Friday, noting the scenario.
“Yeah he’s catching. Let’s make historical past,” Cora informed reporters final week.
Historical past, made.
