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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.”
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.
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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Where do you turn when you need advice? A chatbot? A life coach? A wise and trusted friend?
How about a poet? Poets may not be famous for making the best life choices, but because they subject the mess of human existence to the discipline of language, they can be as helpful as any therapist or mentor.
Good poets know the rules and when to break them, which is something they can teach the rest of us.
To wit:
Giving advice is a peculiar literary undertaking. It flourishes in certain popular genres — graduation speeches, newspaper columns, country and western songs and poems like this one — but what, in these contexts, is it really for?
I’m thinking of situations when you don’t urgently need help but nonetheless enjoy reading answers to questions you may not have thought to ask. What interests you isn’t the content of the advice — you could get all the life hacks you want from A.I. — so much as the voice of the person dispensing it.
Wendy Cope is an English poet, born in 1945, who has been a fixture of her country’s literary scene since the 1980s. More recently, her short, buoyant poem “The Orange” has been widely memed online, bringing her to the attention of new readers beyond Britain.
Cope favors rhyme, meter, brisk jokes and tart aperçus. She addresses romance, friendship and the petty absurdities of modern life with disarming good humor. The last line of “The Orange” is “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” Somehow she makes it the opposite of cringe.
This isn’t the kind of poetry you would describe as “confessional.” And yet …
Question 1/7
Stop, if the car is going “clunk”
Or if the sun has made you blind.
Don’t answer e–mails when you’re drunk.
Tap a word above to fill in the highlighted blank.Want to learn this poem by heart? We’ll help.
Fill in the missing words below. You can always refer to the reading by A.O. Scott and full
text above.Let’s start with the first stanza.
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