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Monday, the The player to watch is Danny Jansen, a 7 year veteran (of baseball, not our style) Boston catcher. For you challenged folks who don’t watch baseball, that’s the heavily padded fella behind the plate who ain’t dressed in blue.<\/p>\n Jansen was a member of the Blue Jays for the original game, but he was traded to Boston on July 27. Red Sox manager Alex Cora confirmed that Jansen will be substituted into the lineup when the matchup resumes, meaning Jansen will be on record as playing for both teams in the same game.\u00a0 Yahoo Sports<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Major league baseball having been around well over a century, it’s hard to believe that no one has ever been in this position before. Nope, this is history in the making, and yet another bar trivia item. “Who is the only player to play for both teams in the same game” now joins “Who got a hit for two teams in one day?” (Joel Youngblood, who was traded from the Mets after an early game to the Expos and singled for Montreal in a game that night. )<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AA league amateur <\/del>Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays finish out a rain-delayed game from earlier in the year.<\/p>\n