Is just flat weird…
I haven’t followed baseball since the strike in 1994, but this one is apparently a first EVER event.
Weather and the MLB trade deadline led veteran catcher Danny Jansen to one of the most bizarre pieces of league history on Monday afternoon at Fenway Park in Boston.
Jansen became the first player to ever play for both teams in the same game as the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox resumed their rain-delayed game from June 26.
In fact, Jansen played for both teams in the same inning when he took the field for the Red Sox as the game resumed.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
I know it didn’t happen overnight, but dayum… I guess that is one way to get in the history books!
And I can’t help but wonder what Jansen was thinking as he got behind the plate for what ‘should’ have been his at bat for the Jays. After all, he’d already fouled one off before the game was cancelled.
Ya know, if you tried to put something like this in a novel, you’d be booed for making up s**t that couldn’t happen…
The closest thing to that I’ve heard of was the time the Cardinals and the Cubs swapped outfielders in the middle of a doubleheader. Back in 1922 between games the Cubs swapped right fielder Max Flack for Cardinals center fielder Cliff Heathcote. Both started game two for their new teams.
Jim- I don’t remember that one, but I never followed either of those teams.
I’d be surprised if you did remember that since you weren’t around back then, but then neither was I.
Doh… I read that as 1992… sheesh…
And THIS is why I continually say “Pro Sports Suk”.
I was a fervent fan of the St. Louis Cardinals and particularly their second baseman, Tommy Herr.
They traded him to Kansas City.
And then he beat our ass in the World Series.
No loyalty among ’em at all.
Tommy Herr never played for the Royals. They already had Frank White, one of the finest defensive second basemen to have played the game. Herr was a Cardinal in the World Series
Wow.
I’ve been confused for YEARS then.
This getting old sux.
Anyone remember the Steagles?
A friend,the late Vic Sears, played on that team. He flunked four armed forces physicals but played twelve pro football seasons.
The Steagles were the team created by the temporary merger of Pennsylvania’s two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season.
GB- Yep…
WSF- Never heard that story!