August 20, 2024 • 14 mins
This is a story so weird that is deserves it's own special segment. Craig Way and Cameron break down how Danny Jansen could make history by playing for the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays in the same game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We continue here on the sports radio AM thirteen hunder
the Zone and we you know, update things on baseball
as we do, and we have Gene Watson on the
program each week from the Chicago White Sox front office,
and he discusses things with us and we talk about
the Astros who are on a roll and the Rangers
(00:20):
who are not, although they did win last night over
the Pirates four or three. Corey Seeker another home run.
He's up to twenty eight now, so you know, maybe
they can, you know, get it. Try to flip the
script a little bit on some things here. But one thing,
one thing that I really enjoy about baseball, and maybe
(00:42):
it's the whatever the nerd in me or whatever it
has the minutia that you know, all wrapped up and
one of the things that's that I find really enjoyable.
But about baseball is it's so linear and there are
so many it's so stat driven now that drives other
(01:03):
people crazy and they don't like that. And I don't
know that I would want the kind of stat driven
minutia in other sports that exist in baseball. We're kind
of getting there with football in some ways, but they
have some unusual things about them, and the story that
(01:24):
I'm about to share with you is a perfect example
of that. I am a big fan of the work
of Jason Stark. Jason Stark is a Baseball Hall of
Famer with what he's done, and was just this summer
also inducted in the National Sports Media Association's Hall of Fame.
(01:45):
I was there for that for the Sportscaster or the
Year in Sports Writer of the Year banquet, and he
was inducted in that. Jason Stark for many years wrote
for The Sporting News, then for ESPN, and then in
one of their big purges, he was let go.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Their loss the athletics gain because he.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Wound up with the Athletic and he writes some really intriguing,
entertaining articles.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then there's this one.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The headline is, first of all, are you familiar with
a catcher for the Boston Red Sox by the name
of Danny Janssen.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Are you familiar with with that? Kim? I believe he
played for the Blue Jays. He did, and was.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
He was traded just before the trade deadline. And therein
lies the beauty, my friend, because the headline reads, Danny
Jansen could make history. We're going MLB history, you know
back over one hundred years. Danny Jansen could make history
by playing for the Red Sox and the Blue Jays
in the same game. And here's how this works. And
I'm gonna have to read from some of this because
(02:49):
it's the easiest way, because Jason Start lays it out
better than I could just you know, encapsulate it. He
starts off by saying, every one knows who can't be
in two places at the same time. Those are the rules,
the immutable rules of physics. Ah, but who knew you
could play for two teams in the same baseball game.
Those are also the rules, the wacky suspended game rules
(03:14):
of baseball. So next Monday, keep that on your calendar.
Next Monday, which will be what the twenty sixth. If
all the forces in the universe line upright, Boston Red
Sox catcher Danny Jansen will go where no baseball playing
human has ever gone before, not in the big leagues anyway.
(03:37):
In a week, he could become the first player in
Major League history to appear in a box score for
both teams in the same game. And then he has
and here's our plea to the forces in the universe.
This needs to happen. So the athletic contacted him. He said,
oh man, it's gonna be nuts. Jansen said that. So
here's how this works. For the last fifty four days,
(03:58):
since June twenty, Danny Jansen has been stuck in the
batter's box at Fenway Park, frozen in baseball time. Not literally,
of course, but this is baseball. So even as everything
else around him has swirled in a million different directions,
the box score of that game tells us he is
still batting. You see, it was in the second inning.
Jansen was hitting for the Toronto Blue Jays in a
(04:21):
game against the Red Sox. There was one out, a
runner at first. Jansen digs in he had just fouled
off a first pitch cutter, and that was when the
weather gods decided it was time to mess with the
baseball gods. So it started raining, and it says so
those rain drops turned into a rain delay. The rain
delay turned into a suspended game. The resumption of that
(04:42):
suspended game was scheduled for August twenty six, that's this
coming Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Trade deadline happened and Jansen got traded for the first
time in his career to the team the Blue Jays
were playing that night. The Red Sox so friends history,
beckons and essays. He says, we're big fans of both,
So where could this be leading? What does it all mean?
And are you sure this has never happened before? Spoiler alert,
don't be. Let's take a look. So what happens next
(05:13):
when this game resumes? We can guarantee you one thing.
Danny Jensen will not get to finishes at bat for
the Red Sox. The suspended game rule may be a
little zany at times, but it isn't that zany, not
enough to allow a player wearing a Red Sox uniform
to bat for the Blue Jays. But here's where this
could get fun and historic. The Red Sox also need
(05:34):
to change catchers. Rhese McGuire, who was catching for them
at the time, is on the trip a roster now
not the big league roster. So if the Red Sox
manager Alex Korra is as a students we think he is,
we're headed for one of the greatest PA announcements ever.
Quote now catching for the Red Sox, Danny Jansen, now
pitch hitting for Danny Jansen. Fill in the blank. But
(05:56):
who the heck cares? Oh Man Jansen said when we
ran that scenario by him, Such an oddity. It's an oddity,
all right, But it's only possible because the suspended game
rule is the gift that keeps on. Giving of all
the fourteen gazillion rules in the Baseball rule book, the
suspended game rule has to be the most awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It makes so.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Much weird and wild weird and wild nutting as possible.
It's the best rule ever. It makes time travel possible
thanks to this rule. Juan Soto managed to debut before
his debut back in twenty eighteen. He arrived in the
big leagues with the Washington Nationals on May twentieth, but
he later played in the game that had been suspended
from May fifteenth, and he homered, which means he debuted
(06:37):
before he debuted, and he also homered before his first
home run. It makes team travel possible thanks to this rule.
Reliever Joel Hanrahan won a game for the Nationals while
he was playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates in two thousand
and nine. He pitched a scoreless top of the eleventh
inning for the Nats on May fifth. Then that game
got a little slippery in more ways than one. He
(06:57):
got delayed, suspended, and finished two months later. But he'd
been traded to the Pirates by that So yeah, while
he was hanging out in the Pirates bullpen in Miami,
the Nationals rallied to win the game in Washington, So
the winning pitcher was who else? Joel Hanrahan. What a
magic trick. It makes cloning possible thanks to this rule.
(07:19):
Adam duval and Daniel Hudson once faced each other with
two different teams in two different games on the same day.
And now that we're this deep into this section, that
doesn't seem so strange anymore, does it. On July twenty
first of twenty twenty one, the Marlins were playing the Nationals.
Duvall went one for four for Miami. Hudson pitched a
scoreless eight for Washington. But meanwhile, in an alternate universe,
(07:41):
the Braves were playing the Padres that day in another
game that will get suspended by the time they resumed
it in September. Guess what else had changed. Duvall was
a Brave, Hudson was a Padre, and in the sixth
inning of that game, do Vall, the Brave hit a
home run off Daniel Hudson on the same day. The
box scores tell us they were also playing against each
other in Washington. It's right there in Duvall's game log
(08:05):
in Baseball Reference. So now that we have that fun
preamble out of the way, back to Danny Jansen, it
makes no logical sense that a player could get taken
out of a game and then at the exact same
moment get subbed into that game for the other team.
But have we mentioned that the suspended game rule is
inventive like that. Here's what it says, rule seven point
h two. A player who was not with the club
(08:27):
when the game was suspended may be used as a substitute,
even if he has taken the place of a player
no longer with the club who would not.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Have been eligible.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, now that Jansen was intricately familiar with any of that,
not that he was when he got traded to Boston
on July twenty seventh, But all it took was one
day in his new clubhouse before he realized he was
going to have to bone up on this thing, because
those Boston writers had a lot of questions about a
feat he didn't even know. As possible. His quote was,
I didn't know much about this At first. I was like,
(08:58):
what am I going to have to go on to
the other team. I didn't know what was going to happen.
It just kind of caught me off guard about the
whole situation, because when I got traded, it was just
a whirlwind at first, and I didn't think about it.
But then once that stuff ended, I heard about the
suspended game scenario and I was like, Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's a unique thing that's going to happen. Ah, but
how unique is it?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't answer too quickly, because there is, in fact, another
living human who actually did this. Unless you were a
big fan of International League Baseball back in the nineteen eighties,
you probably don't recognize the name Dale Holman. But did
you know he has several artifacts from his career that
are currently housed inside the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
True story and why is that?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Because in nineteen eighty six, Dale Holman did something that
might sound familiar if you've read this far. He played
for both teams in the same game. He started that
game in June, playing in right field for Syracuse. He
finished that game on August sixteenth, playing left field for Richmond.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yes, we even dug up the box score.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
By the way I looked at the box score, Fred
McGriff was playing for Syracuse in that game. There was
a couple of brad Comments who was a Brave later
was playing for them. There were several guys who went
oh Cecil fielder was playing in that game for Syracuse.
But unlike the saga of Danny Jansen, who merely got
traded from one team to the other, a bunch of
(10:15):
stars had the lineup for Holman to pull off his feet.
He didn't get traded, he got released, So that usually
isn't a sure fire ticket to making history. At age
twenty seven and stuck in his fifth season in Triple A,
wasn't even sure he'd get another job, but he hooked
on with the Braves Double A team in Greenville, South Carolina.
He was still there a month later when the Braves
Triple A club and Richmond needed to find an outfielder
in a hurry, guys.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Who got called up naturally.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Just two days later, Holman's new team was about to
resume a suspended game with his old team, Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's safe to say.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
There was a lot less buzzing about that momentous event
than what Danny Jansen is experiencing. In fact, it almost
went unnoticed except that afternoon Richmond and fielder Paul Rungey
figured it out and then he said, you got to
get in there. And so next thing you knew, Holman
was in the lineup. He had a doubleness single and
his next to it bats against the team he was
playing for us recently. In the third inning, but that's
(11:05):
not his big as claim. The thing you see in
the second inning, when he was still in the Syracuse lineup,
he smoked the two run double. So not only had
he played for both teams, he got a hit for
both teams in the same game, and even nuther yer,
he got credit for driving in the winning run against
the team he was playing for when the game ended.
That sounds more like a brock myerscript than something that
(11:25):
unfolded in real life.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And then he goes on and he's got some other
quotes from him about that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So so now for forty years, Holman's had this space
all to himself, it says.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And so they asked him about this deel chancey.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He said, well, he can't, he can't join me, he
didn't get a hit for both teams. That's true, but
Jansen is doing it in the big league, so that's
a big check mark on his side. So then he
had a question for us, if the pinch hitter goes
in for him and strikes out, does that go on
my stats? Because if he did, I was thinking, we're
gonna have to get that guy to roll and be
over won the third base. The answer to that is no,
(11:59):
because he only had one strike on him, except that
if he'd seen one more pitch in that game before
the rain hit, What if there'd been two strikes on him,
then he would have had a chance to do something
really weird. He could have caught the third strikeout of himself. Wow,
he said, that would be wild if also, hat tip
to a reader, if there were two strikes instead of one,
(12:20):
and then Jansen the catcher wasn't able to hold onto
the pitch that struck out Danny Jansen the hitter, he
could have theoretically tagged himself out. Or that's how the
official played by Playanneles of Baseball would have described it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Anyhow, he said, that's so funny to think about.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So anyway, it said, moments like this reverberate through baseball history.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But there is a chance that this could happen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So Alex Korra hasn't tipped his hand, and Jan said,
had some more time to focus on this, it'd be
cool to be part of that. He said, baseball is incredible,
and how would he explain to his grandkids that's even
possible to play for both teams in the same game.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The major leagues, there's a.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Lot more the tale of that story written by Jason Stark,
believe it or not. That's capsualizing it. That's not the
entire story. There's a lot more about that guy. In
the minor leagues. There's some really weird stuff that happened there.
Such a fun story. Craig, I love seeing writing like that,
and said, instead of another article of power ranking certain things,
(13:23):
certain players, certain teams, it's fun that Jason Stark wouldn't
cover that. Because I read all this stuff every day
in the morning, I'm just I'm scattered, you know. I
have the subscriptions to these I'm reading The Athletic, I'm
reading ESPN, I'm reading SI. I'm reading all these different things.
And I really like Jason stark stuff. I read his
stuff every day. He has some really funny stuff, and
I came across this and I was like, oh my gosh,
(13:45):
And although this could be inconceivable by itself, but then
I'm like, you know, what kind of deserves its own spot.
So keep that on your sports viewing calendar, or at
least keep up with it. Next Monday, Danny Jansen could
be the first player in Major League Baseball history to
play for both teams in the same game. Now, we've
(14:06):
heard stories about guys who got traded from one team
to another on the same day and played for two
different teams on the same day, but it was two
different ballgames. This is a guy who can play against
the team he was on, where he's already registered in
the box score. That could happen next Monday. More coming
up here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone.
We continue here on the sports radio AM thirteen hunder
the Zone and we you know, update things on baseball
as we do, and we have Gene Watson on the
program each week from the Chicago White Sox front office,
and he discusses things with us and we talk about
the Astros who are on a roll and the Rangers
(00:20):
who are not, although they did win last night over
the Pirates four or three. Corey Seeker another home run.
He's up to twenty eight now, so you know, maybe
they can, you know, get it. Try to flip the
script a little bit on some things here. But one thing,
one thing that I really enjoy about baseball, and maybe
(00:42):
it's the whatever the nerd in me or whatever it
has the minutia that you know, all wrapped up and
one of the things that's that I find really enjoyable.
But about baseball is it's so linear and there are
so many it's so stat driven now that drives other
(01:03):
people crazy and they don't like that. And I don't
know that I would want the kind of stat driven
minutia in other sports that exist in baseball. We're kind
of getting there with football in some ways, but they
have some unusual things about them, and the story that
(01:24):
I'm about to share with you is a perfect example
of that. I am a big fan of the work
of Jason Stark. Jason Stark is a Baseball Hall of
Famer with what he's done, and was just this summer
also inducted in the National Sports Media Association's Hall of Fame.
(01:45):
I was there for that for the Sportscaster or the
Year in Sports Writer of the Year banquet, and he
was inducted in that. Jason Stark for many years wrote
for The Sporting News, then for ESPN, and then in
one of their big purges, he was let go.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Their loss the athletics gain because he.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Wound up with the Athletic and he writes some really intriguing,
entertaining articles.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then there's this one.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The headline is, first of all, are you familiar with
a catcher for the Boston Red Sox by the name
of Danny Janssen.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Are you familiar with with that? Kim? I believe he
played for the Blue Jays. He did, and was.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
He was traded just before the trade deadline. And therein
lies the beauty, my friend, because the headline reads, Danny
Jansen could make history. We're going MLB history, you know
back over one hundred years. Danny Jansen could make history
by playing for the Red Sox and the Blue Jays
in the same game. And here's how this works. And
I'm gonna have to read from some of this because
(02:49):
it's the easiest way, because Jason Start lays it out
better than I could just you know, encapsulate it. He
starts off by saying, every one knows who can't be
in two places at the same time. Those are the rules,
the immutable rules of physics. Ah, but who knew you
could play for two teams in the same baseball game.
Those are also the rules, the wacky suspended game rules
(03:14):
of baseball. So next Monday, keep that on your calendar.
Next Monday, which will be what the twenty sixth. If
all the forces in the universe line upright, Boston Red
Sox catcher Danny Jansen will go where no baseball playing
human has ever gone before, not in the big leagues anyway.
(03:37):
In a week, he could become the first player in
Major League history to appear in a box score for
both teams in the same game. And then he has
and here's our plea to the forces in the universe.
This needs to happen. So the athletic contacted him. He said,
oh man, it's gonna be nuts. Jansen said that. So
here's how this works. For the last fifty four days,
(03:58):
since June twenty, Danny Jansen has been stuck in the
batter's box at Fenway Park, frozen in baseball time. Not literally,
of course, but this is baseball. So even as everything
else around him has swirled in a million different directions,
the box score of that game tells us he is
still batting. You see, it was in the second inning.
Jansen was hitting for the Toronto Blue Jays in a
(04:21):
game against the Red Sox. There was one out, a
runner at first. Jansen digs in he had just fouled
off a first pitch cutter, and that was when the
weather gods decided it was time to mess with the
baseball gods. So it started raining, and it says so
those rain drops turned into a rain delay. The rain
delay turned into a suspended game. The resumption of that
(04:42):
suspended game was scheduled for August twenty six, that's this
coming Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Trade deadline happened and Jansen got traded for the first
time in his career to the team the Blue Jays
were playing that night. The Red Sox so friends history,
beckons and essays. He says, we're big fans of both,
So where could this be leading? What does it all mean?
And are you sure this has never happened before? Spoiler alert,
don't be. Let's take a look. So what happens next
(05:13):
when this game resumes? We can guarantee you one thing.
Danny Jensen will not get to finishes at bat for
the Red Sox. The suspended game rule may be a
little zany at times, but it isn't that zany, not
enough to allow a player wearing a Red Sox uniform
to bat for the Blue Jays. But here's where this
could get fun and historic. The Red Sox also need
(05:34):
to change catchers. Rhese McGuire, who was catching for them
at the time, is on the trip a roster now
not the big league roster. So if the Red Sox
manager Alex Korra is as a students we think he is,
we're headed for one of the greatest PA announcements ever.
Quote now catching for the Red Sox, Danny Jansen, now
pitch hitting for Danny Jansen. Fill in the blank. But
(05:56):
who the heck cares? Oh Man Jansen said when we
ran that scenario by him, Such an oddity. It's an oddity,
all right, But it's only possible because the suspended game
rule is the gift that keeps on. Giving of all
the fourteen gazillion rules in the Baseball rule book, the
suspended game rule has to be the most awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It makes so.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Much weird and wild weird and wild nutting as possible.
It's the best rule ever. It makes time travel possible
thanks to this rule. Juan Soto managed to debut before
his debut back in twenty eighteen. He arrived in the
big leagues with the Washington Nationals on May twentieth, but
he later played in the game that had been suspended
from May fifteenth, and he homered, which means he debuted
(06:37):
before he debuted, and he also homered before his first
home run. It makes team travel possible thanks to this rule.
Reliever Joel Hanrahan won a game for the Nationals while
he was playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates in two thousand
and nine. He pitched a scoreless top of the eleventh
inning for the Nats on May fifth. Then that game
got a little slippery in more ways than one. He
(06:57):
got delayed, suspended, and finished two months later. But he'd
been traded to the Pirates by that So yeah, while
he was hanging out in the Pirates bullpen in Miami,
the Nationals rallied to win the game in Washington, So
the winning pitcher was who else? Joel Hanrahan. What a
magic trick. It makes cloning possible thanks to this rule.
(07:19):
Adam duval and Daniel Hudson once faced each other with
two different teams in two different games on the same day.
And now that we're this deep into this section, that
doesn't seem so strange anymore, does it. On July twenty
first of twenty twenty one, the Marlins were playing the Nationals.
Duvall went one for four for Miami. Hudson pitched a
scoreless eight for Washington. But meanwhile, in an alternate universe,
(07:41):
the Braves were playing the Padres that day in another
game that will get suspended by the time they resumed
it in September. Guess what else had changed. Duvall was
a Brave, Hudson was a Padre, and in the sixth
inning of that game, do Vall, the Brave hit a
home run off Daniel Hudson on the same day. The
box scores tell us they were also playing against each
other in Washington. It's right there in Duvall's game log
(08:05):
in Baseball Reference. So now that we have that fun
preamble out of the way, back to Danny Jansen, it
makes no logical sense that a player could get taken
out of a game and then at the exact same
moment get subbed into that game for the other team.
But have we mentioned that the suspended game rule is
inventive like that. Here's what it says, rule seven point
h two. A player who was not with the club
(08:27):
when the game was suspended may be used as a substitute,
even if he has taken the place of a player
no longer with the club who would not.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Have been eligible.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, now that Jansen was intricately familiar with any of that,
not that he was when he got traded to Boston
on July twenty seventh, But all it took was one
day in his new clubhouse before he realized he was
going to have to bone up on this thing, because
those Boston writers had a lot of questions about a
feat he didn't even know. As possible. His quote was,
I didn't know much about this At first. I was like,
(08:58):
what am I going to have to go on to
the other team. I didn't know what was going to happen.
It just kind of caught me off guard about the
whole situation, because when I got traded, it was just
a whirlwind at first, and I didn't think about it.
But then once that stuff ended, I heard about the
suspended game scenario and I was like, Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's a unique thing that's going to happen. Ah, but
how unique is it?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't answer too quickly, because there is, in fact, another
living human who actually did this. Unless you were a
big fan of International League Baseball back in the nineteen eighties,
you probably don't recognize the name Dale Holman. But did
you know he has several artifacts from his career that
are currently housed inside the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
True story and why is that?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Because in nineteen eighty six, Dale Holman did something that
might sound familiar if you've read this far. He played
for both teams in the same game. He started that
game in June, playing in right field for Syracuse. He
finished that game on August sixteenth, playing left field for Richmond.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yes, we even dug up the box score.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
By the way I looked at the box score, Fred
McGriff was playing for Syracuse in that game. There was
a couple of brad Comments who was a Brave later
was playing for them. There were several guys who went
oh Cecil fielder was playing in that game for Syracuse.
But unlike the saga of Danny Jansen, who merely got
traded from one team to the other, a bunch of
(10:15):
stars had the lineup for Holman to pull off his feet.
He didn't get traded, he got released, So that usually
isn't a sure fire ticket to making history. At age
twenty seven and stuck in his fifth season in Triple A,
wasn't even sure he'd get another job, but he hooked
on with the Braves Double A team in Greenville, South Carolina.
He was still there a month later when the Braves
Triple A club and Richmond needed to find an outfielder
in a hurry, guys.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Who got called up naturally.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Just two days later, Holman's new team was about to
resume a suspended game with his old team, Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's safe to say.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
There was a lot less buzzing about that momentous event
than what Danny Jansen is experiencing. In fact, it almost
went unnoticed except that afternoon Richmond and fielder Paul Rungey
figured it out and then he said, you got to
get in there. And so next thing you knew, Holman
was in the lineup. He had a doubleness single and
his next to it bats against the team he was
playing for us recently. In the third inning, but that's
(11:05):
not his big as claim. The thing you see in
the second inning, when he was still in the Syracuse lineup,
he smoked the two run double. So not only had
he played for both teams, he got a hit for
both teams in the same game, and even nuther yer,
he got credit for driving in the winning run against
the team he was playing for when the game ended.
That sounds more like a brock myerscript than something that
(11:25):
unfolded in real life.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And then he goes on and he's got some other
quotes from him about that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So so now for forty years, Holman's had this space
all to himself, it says.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And so they asked him about this deel chancey.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He said, well, he can't, he can't join me, he
didn't get a hit for both teams. That's true, but
Jansen is doing it in the big league, so that's
a big check mark on his side. So then he
had a question for us, if the pinch hitter goes
in for him and strikes out, does that go on
my stats? Because if he did, I was thinking, we're
gonna have to get that guy to roll and be
over won the third base. The answer to that is no,
(11:59):
because he only had one strike on him, except that
if he'd seen one more pitch in that game before
the rain hit, What if there'd been two strikes on him,
then he would have had a chance to do something
really weird. He could have caught the third strikeout of himself. Wow,
he said, that would be wild if also, hat tip
to a reader, if there were two strikes instead of one,
(12:20):
and then Jansen the catcher wasn't able to hold onto
the pitch that struck out Danny Jansen the hitter, he
could have theoretically tagged himself out. Or that's how the
official played by Playanneles of Baseball would have described it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Anyhow, he said, that's so funny to think about.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So anyway, it said, moments like this reverberate through baseball history.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But there is a chance that this could happen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So Alex Korra hasn't tipped his hand, and Jan said,
had some more time to focus on this, it'd be
cool to be part of that. He said, baseball is incredible,
and how would he explain to his grandkids that's even
possible to play for both teams in the same game.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The major leagues, there's a.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Lot more the tale of that story written by Jason Stark,
believe it or not. That's capsualizing it. That's not the
entire story. There's a lot more about that guy. In
the minor leagues. There's some really weird stuff that happened there.
Such a fun story. Craig, I love seeing writing like that,
and said, instead of another article of power ranking certain things,
(13:23):
certain players, certain teams, it's fun that Jason Stark wouldn't
cover that. Because I read all this stuff every day
in the morning, I'm just I'm scattered, you know. I
have the subscriptions to these I'm reading The Athletic, I'm
reading ESPN, I'm reading SI. I'm reading all these different things.
And I really like Jason stark stuff. I read his
stuff every day. He has some really funny stuff, and
I came across this and I was like, oh my gosh,
(13:45):
And although this could be inconceivable by itself, but then
I'm like, you know, what kind of deserves its own spot.
So keep that on your sports viewing calendar, or at
least keep up with it. Next Monday, Danny Jansen could
be the first player in Major League Baseball history to
play for both teams in the same game. Now, we've
(14:06):
heard stories about guys who got traded from one team
to another on the same day and played for two
different teams on the same day, but it was two
different ballgames. This is a guy who can play against
the team he was on, where he's already registered in
the box score. That could happen next Monday. More coming
up here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone.
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