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I swear this all happened in the Strange But True baseball year of 2024:
A man played for both teams in the same game. Another guy made an out on his own intentional walk. And history was made at Coors Field, all because a pitcher did not throw a pitch.
Do we need to refresh your memory of what The Danny Jansen Game was? Let’s do that. On August 26, the Red Sox and Blue Jays resumed a June 26 game at Fenway Park that had been suspended by rain in the second inning.
What made that The Strange But True Game of the Year was this: When it was halted in June, Jansen was batting for the Blue Jays. And when it resumed, Jansen was catching for the Red Sox.
The suspended-game rule is inventive like that. Nobody has ever batted and caught in the same at-bat in a big league game? But hey, the suspended-game rule is inventive like that.
So who else has ever batted and caught in the same at-bat in a big league game? Nobody. Obviously. But also…
The guy who was on first base when Jansen came to bat for the Blue Jays (Davis Schneider) then stole second base… on Danny Jansen the catcher!
All in the same at-bat, Jansen swung at a pitch as a Blue Jay and caught a pitch for the Red Sox!
As the brilliant multitasker he is, Jansen managed to take the box for the Blue Jays in the top of the second and then the same box for the Red Sox in the bottom of the second – the same inning!
And don’t check the video, because while we have plenty of video evidence that Jansen set foot in the batter’s box for the Blue Jays in this game… and was stuck there for the next seven weeks (not literally!)… he did not get credit for a plate appearance for the Blue Jays. What do you mean, you saw it with your own eyes? Who cares? It’s baseball!
And don’t do the math, because that’s also a problem. Jansen got credited with a game played for Toronto that day. He also got credited with a game played for Boston. But he did not get credited with two games played in the same game. Because that’s not possible. So when does one plus one equal one? Only in… baseball!
The man from Planet Ohtanus has no idea why the rest of us even use that word. The stuff we think of as impossible is stuff he looks at and thinks: “Hey, maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow and try to do that. |
The Ohtani Game might go down as the greatest game any baseball player has ever had. It might also be the game that most defied our ability to imagine what a human, a member of our species, could do over nine innings.
This was September 19 in Miami – when Ohtani laid out this unfathomable mission (Not) Impossible:
6-for-6
3 home runs
5 extra-base hits
2 stolen bases
10 RBIs …
And this box-score line never before witnessed in a major league game:
6-4-6-10
Oh, yeah. And one more thing: This was in this game that he dropped all those feats on the day he became the first man ever to join the 50-Homer, 50-Steal Club.
Seriously!
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