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BOSTON — Boston Purple Sox catcher Danny Jansen is having fun with his quirky piece of baseball historical past as he prepares to turn out to be the primary Main League participant to play for each groups in the identical recreation.
Jansen was within the lineup for the Toronto Blue Jays once they confronted Boston on June 26a match that was postponed on account of rain and was to be rescheduled on Monday. Within the meantime, he was transferred to Bostonand Purple Sox supervisor Alex Cora has mentioned he’ll put Jansen within the lineup when play resumes.
“Baseball has been round for therefore lengthy, so many issues have occurred within the recreation. So I used to be stunned after I discovered I used to be the primary,” Jansen mentioned within the Purple Sox clubhouse this weekend. “Anytime you might be part of the historical past of this nice recreation, it is fairly distinctive.”
Jansen is a right-handed catcher who has spent his complete profession as a reserve, however he has by no means had sufficient plate appearances to qualify for a batting title (although his lifetime common of .222 is undoubtedly the largest impediment). For the reason that Purple Sox acquired him for 3 minor leaguers on July 27, he’s hitting .231 with two homers and 5 RBI in 14 video games.
However he might be headed to the Corridor of Fame — if solely as a footnote — with an authenticator anticipated to be available Monday to safe an artifact from the historic recreation for the museum.
“It is a bit of unusual,” Jansen mentioned. “But it surely’s a type of quirks of the sport and it is fairly cool. I am nonetheless stunned it did not occur, but it surely’s cool.”
Jansen was on the plate with a runner on first and one strike within the rely when the umpires referred to as the tarps for Boston’s collection finale towards the Blue Jays in June. The sport will resume at the moment as a part of a day-night doubleheader on Monday afternoon, Toronto’s first journey again to Fenway Park since then.
The Blue Jays might want to hit for Jansen to get issues going. The Purple Sox additionally want to switch Reese McGuire, who began catching for them on June 26; he was despatched to Triple-A Worcester to make room for Jansen.
Cora has already mentioned that he’ll get Jansen within the first recreation of the doubleheader.
“He’ll be taking part in Recreation 1, by the best way, for all of the individuals who watched historical past,” the Purple Sox supervisor mentioned Friday. ” what? Yeah, he is catching. Let’s make historical past.”
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