As the first player to represent two teams in a single game in MLB history, Danny Jansen
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On June 26, Danny Jansen, who was a player with the Toronto Blue Jays, made baseball history. However, the game versus the Boston Red Sox was postponed due to bad weather. Two months later, when play resumed, Jansen was playing catcher for the Red Sox instead of the Blue Jays.
Before the rain delay, Jansen, 29, was a Blue Jay for the first few innings of the game and only faced one pitch from Boston’s Kutter Crawford. Jansen was technically still at bat in the halted game on July 27, as the Blue Jays traded him to the Red Sox for three minor-league prospects, just one day after the postponement.
Despite Jansen’s prior relationship with the opposition, Boston manager Alex Cora chose to field him. “”Let us create history,”” Cora exclaimed. Jansen was wearing a Red Sox uniform when the game restarted on Monday, 65 days, 18 hours, and 35 minutes after it was suspended. Daulton Varsho of the Jays was pinch hitting for Jansen. This was the first occasion in MLB history that a player had played in a single game for two separate teams.
