Red Sox Catcher Makes History as First to Play on Both Teams in One Game
There have been 238,500 games in Major League Baseball’s 154-year history—and on Monday afternoon, for the first time ever, one player appeared in the same game for both teams.
This feat required severe weather, postponement of the game, a deadline trade and a two-month interlude. But catcher Danny Jansen made history as the first player to show up in the lineup for both teams—the Blue Jays and Red Sox—playing in the same game and even the same inning.
“Oh, man,” Jansen, 29, told The Athletic last week. “It’s going to be nuts.”