Danny Jansen makes MLB history, playing for the Blue Jays and Red Sox in the same game

The Blue Jays won two games in Boston on Monday, though one of those victories will count as having been played two months earlier.
It began with the weird and wacky completion of a suspended game from June 26 that included enough quirks to send you down a rabbit hole and make you believe there had been a rip in the fabric of space-time.
The Jays won that one 4-1, officially their 80th game of the season. A couple of hours later, they were back on the field at Fenway Park, playing their 133rd game of the season and winning that one as well, 7-3.
The first game, resumed with the score 0-0 and one out in the top of the second inning, made history.
When the game was halted by rain two months ago, Danny Jansen was at bat for the Jays, behind in the count 0-and-1. When it started back up, Jansen was the Boston catcher, having been traded to the Red Sox in late July, and Daulton Varsho was in the batter’s box.
As Jansen went out to warm up for the game, the centre-field scoreboard showed him as the batter for the Jays, which he was until Varsho was officially announced as the pinch-hitter.
“When I walked out there today, yeah, I saw myself up there for sure,” Jansen told reporters in Boston. “That was kind of like, ‘Well, that’s where we’re at.’ ”
He was somewhere no other major-leaguer had ever been. Once things started up and Jansen crouched behind the plate in his Red Sox uniform, he became the first player in major-league history to play for both teams in the same game.
Varsho struck out and Will Wagner stepped up to create another anomaly.
Wagner and Leo Jimenez, who came out for defence to begin the bottom of the second inning, will go down in the record books as having played in the bigs on June 26, despite both their major-league debuts having come later in the summer.
George Springer opened the scoring with a massive blast over the Green Monster seats. Because of how the game will be recorded, the round-tripper gave Springer a three-game homer streak, from June 25-27.
Springer went deep in the regularly scheduled game as well, a three-run shot wrapped around the Pesky Pole in right field that was the key blow in a five-run fifth inning.
That Springer dinger, and not the earlier one, extended the Jays’ home run streak to 15 games, the longest current streak in the major leagues.
The 34-year-old became the first major-leaguer to hit his seventh and 19th home runs of the season on the same day.
On the mound, the second game was dominated by José Berríos, who picked up his team-leading 13th win, allowing only one run into the eighth inning before giving up a two-run homer to Jarren Duran and leaving the bullpen with four outs to get. Brendon Little got them all, picking up his first major-league save.
The earlier game saw the Jays use six relievers, with Yariel Rodriguez having thrown one inning back in June. Ryan Yarbrough did the bulk of the work, recording 10 outs and not allowing a run.
Chad Green finished it off and was awarded his third save of the season (although it was the 15th he has recorded this year).
Of course, it was Jansen at the plate when it ended. He struck out to close the books on a game that was won by the team he started it with.