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Danny Jansen to join Red Sox's lineup at start of suspended game vs. Blue Jays, play for both teams

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Danny Jansen to join Red Sox's lineup at start of suspended game vs. Blue Jays, play for both teams

Danny Jansen is set to make Major League Baseball history on Monday at Fenway Park.

The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays will resume a June 26 game that was suspended for rain in what will be the first game of a doubleheader on Monday. Back in June, Jansen, then playing for the Blue Jays, was at the plate with one out and one on in the top of the second when the game was suspended. After a 1-hour, 48-minute delay, the Red Sox and Jays announced the game would pick up where it left off in a doubleheader on Aug. 26.

Jansen was traded to the Red Sox on July 27, opening the possibility that he could be on the opposite side of the field when the June 26 game resumed.

On Friday, Red Sox manager Alex Cora confirmed to reporters that Jansen will sub in to begin the continuation of the game, which would make him the first player in history to appear in the same game for both sides.

“I don’t even know how this works,” Jansen said when asked about the suspended game after he’d been traded to Boston. “I’ve heard about it a couple times. That’d be funky.”

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The Athletic’s Jayson Stark dug into the matter and the uniqueness of the situation this past week:

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Danny Jansen could make history by playing for Red Sox and Blue Jays in the same game

In 13 games for the Red Sox since the trade, the right-handed hitting catcher is batting .257 with a .794 OPS.

The Blue Jays will have some funky developments in the game, too. Blue Jays’ manager John Schneider said Friday that Jose Berríos will take the ball when the game resumes, but because Yariel Rodríguez was the starter before the game was suspended, Berríos will actually pitch in relief. It will be his first relief appearance since he threw 1 1/3 innings in relief in his final appearance of the season in 2017 — a span of 166 straight starts.

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Meanwhile, Rodríguez will start the next day, on Tuesday, making him the starter on back-to-back days — sort of. Though the suspended game will end on Aug. 26, it will be officially recorded as having taken place on June 26 in the record books.

(Photo of Jansen: Paul Rutherford / Getty Images)

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Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s tests your memory of books you may have read during your school days — specifically, the plots of much-loved novels for young readers. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books.

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I Want This Jane Kenyon Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral

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I Want This Jane Kenyon Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral

You can hear a reading of this poem at the bottom of the page.

“The Pond at Dusk”: It’s a title that presents an image of calm, touched with the faintest shimmer of dread. You might picture a peaceful summer evening in the countryside somewhere, but you might also feel the tug of a somber metaphor in the word “dusk.” Night is falling, and this poem proceeds, nimbly and observantly, toward an unsentimental confrontation with death.

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Jane Kenyon in 1992.

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In one called “Twilight: After Haying” — there’s that dusk again — she writes that “the soul / must part from the body: / what else could it do?” What else indeed. This fatalism provides its own kind of solace. “The day comes at last.” The end is inevitable, inarguable, and there may be a balm in acknowledging that fact.

Not that “The Pond at Dusk” quite dispenses such consolation. It isn’t Kenyon’s style to offer homilies or lessons. Instead, she watches, with sympathetic detachment, standing back from the implications of her words and letting them ripple outward, toward the reader.

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This is not the kind of nature poetry that gazes in wonder at the glories of creation, taking the world as a mirror of the poet’s ego. Kenyon parcels out her attention carefully, removing herself from the picture as rigorously as a landscape painter at her easel.

Listen to A.O. Scott read the poem.

THE POND AT DUSK by Jane Kenyon

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The Pond at Dusk by Jane Kenyon 

A fly wounds the water but the wound 

soon heals. Swallows tilt and twitter 

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overhead, dropping now and then toward 

the outwardradiating evidence of food. 

The green haze on the trees changes 

into leaves, and what looks like smoke 

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floating over the neighbors barn 

is only apple blossoms. 

But sometimes what looks like disaster 

is disaster: the day comes at last, 

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and the men struggle with the casket 

just clearing the pews. 

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