This has to have broken some baseball statistic database

[kdonnel]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/sport/mlb-player-history-two-teams-spt-intl/index.html

Danny Jansen made Major League Baseball history Monday by becoming the first player to play for two teams in the same game.

Sounds impossible until you read the story.

On June 26, Jansen was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. At the time, he was in the middle of an at-bat against the Red Sox in a scoreless game at Fenway Park.

But that game was suspended due to weather in the top of the second inning with a runner on first base and one out.

It took two months for the contest to resume and during the wait, Jansen switched teams when Toronto traded him to Boston for three prospects.


When the suspended game continued Monday, Blue Jays center fielder Daulton Varsho pinch hit for Jansen.

Jansen started the resumed game behind home plate as a defensive substitution for catcher Reese McGuire, who was designated for assignment last month by Boston, for what was Jansen’s own at-bat.

The same player being recorded in the game for two different teams seems like an edge case that no one thought about when designing a database or some queries for that database.

 

[lanejudy]

It was on our local news tonight!

 

[Southernmiss]

Dh talked about it when the game was first played.

We were glad to see they recently finished the game and that he got to make history.

 

[bcla]

Heard about it, but I'm wondering how he was even eligible to play for the Red Sox. I was under the impression that any player in the game has to be on the team's lineup card, which he obviously wasn't at the time of the original start of the game.

Did a little checking, and apparently resumed games are allowed to use substitutes who weren't with the team at the time the game was suspended.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...y-playing-for-red-sox-blue-jays-in-same-game/​

To be clear, Jansen playing for both the Blue Jays and Red Sox in the same game is within the rules. The Red Sox aren't stepping outside the rules nor is this some half-baked idea that sounds cool but isn't actually legal. MLB Rule 7.02(h) covers substitutions for suspended games. Emphasis mine:​

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A suspended game shall be resumed at the exact point of suspension of the original game. The completion of a suspended game is a continuation of the original game. The lineup and batting order of both teams shall be exactly the same as the lineup and batting order at the moment of suspension, subject to the rules governing substitution. Any player may be replaced by a player who had not been in the game prior to the suspension. No player removed before the suspension may be returned to the lineup. A player who was not with the Club 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 have been eligible because he had been removed from the lineup before the game was suspended.​