Danny Jansen made MLB history on Monday by becoming the first player to play for both teams in the same game, and the experience was just as strange as it sounds.
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora had previously announced that Jansen would play for the Red Sox in the resumption of a suspended game against Toronto. Jansen had been a player for Toronto when the game was suspended on June 26, but had been traded to the Red Sox in July.
While the concept was already unusual, the actual event took things to a whole new level of absurdity.
At the time of the suspension, Jansen had been up to bat, so his first action in the resumed game was as a catcher to his own pinch-hitter, Daulton Varsho. To add to the oddity, Jansen was immediately tested when Davis Schneider successfully stole second base off of him – a scenario that just two months prior, Jansen would have been on the other side of trying to advance or drive in the runner.
