Danny Jansen will play in the same game for the Red Sox and Blue Jays.

On Monday, Danny Jansen will play for both teams in the same game, making baseball history. A month after a game between the two teams was postponed at Fenway Park due to inclement weather, the unusual scenario was put in motion on July 27 when the Toronto Blue Jays transferred Jansen to the Boston Red Sox. That evening, Jansen was scheduled to bat first for the Blue Jays when the game was canceled and rescheduled as a split doubleheader for August 26.

A month later, the Red Sox, in need of a right-handed bat, acquired the veteran catcher. On Friday, Boston manager Alex Cora confirmed that Jansen will be in the lineup when the June 26 game resumes Monday afternoon at Fenway.

“Yeah, he’s catching,” Cora told reporters. “Let’s make history.”

Jansen called it “definitely a cool thing.”

“Definitely grateful,” he said. “Honestly, when I heard about it, I didn’t think I would be the first. The game has been around for so long. It’s one of those oddities that happen in this sport. It’s extremely rare and cool.”

Reese McGuire had been Boston’s catcher for the June 26 game but was assigned outright to Triple-A Worcester after the Jansen trade. He is not currently on the Red Sox’s 40-man roster.

Chicago With consecutive home runs in the first inning from Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker, the New York Mets defeated the fading White Sox 5-3 on Saturday night, sending Chicago its 106th loss, tying a franchise record. The White Sox (31-106), who had lost nine games in a row, had matched their season record for most losses, which they had established in 1970. Chicago is on pace to surpass the current major league record for the most defeats, set by the expansion 1962 Mets with 120 games played, since they are 4-35 since the All-Star break.

According to ESPN Stats & Information, the White Sox’s winning percentage of just .226 also puts them on pace to finish with the worst winning percentage in American League history, which would beat out the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics’ record-low .235 winning percentage.

Grady Sizemore, the temporary manager of the White Sox, stated, “A lot of things have been going against us.” “We need that break just to kind of help the morale in that clubhouse.” The Mets (72-64) pulled off their third straight victory and closed the gap on Atlanta for the final NL wild card to just two games. For the first time this season, New York is eight games over.500 after winning eight of their last twelve games. With his two-run home run off Davis Martin, Alonso reached 30 for the first time in his six major league seasons, all of which he spent with the Mets. In 57 games during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, the four-time All-Star finished with 16 points.

With 222 home runs, 29-year-old Alonso sits third on the Mets’ all-time list. Winker recorded two RBIs and three hits for the second straight game. Alonso scored twice and added a single. For Chicago, Gavin Sheets, Miguel Vargas, and Corey Julks drove in runs, while Andrew Benintendi had two singles. In relief of the Mets’ Edwin Diaz, Jose Butto worked a shaky ninth and gave up a run while giving up a double to Vargas and singles to Jacob Amaya and Luis Robert Jr. The right-hander recorded his third save on a comebacker by retiring Benintendi with two runners on base.

“They are not quitting. They are not folding,” Sizemore said about his team. “But it would be nice to have some of those balls fall, to get some bleeders or something.”