Every now and then over the course of Major League Baseball’s season games will be suspended due to rain and picked up a couple of weeks or months later. That sometimes leads to statistical oddities where a player involved in the game’s start might have been traded or cut loose at some point in the interim, opening the possibility they could technically “play” for two teams on the same day.

But there’s never been an instance of someone playing for both teams in the same game, something that could happen when the Red Sox and Blue Jays resume their suspended game on Aug. 26.

Danny Jansen, who was acquired by the Red Sox from the Blue Jays on Saturday, was in the lineup for Toronto when the game began on June 26. Jansen played the first two innings as the Blue Jays starting catcher and was up to bat in the bottom of the second against Kutter Crawford when the sky opened up and torrential rain cut the game short.

When the game resumes next month, the Blue Jays will have to pinch hit for Jansen, who will instead be either catching for the Red Sox in place of the since designated for assignment Reese McGuire or he’ll be available as a right-handed bat off the bench.

Asked about the possibility on Sunday, Jansen acknowledged that it had been brought up a couple of times since the trade became official.

“I don’t even know how this works, I’ve heard about it a couple of times but that would be funky,” Jansen said. “I’m down 0-1, right? I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

According to an article by the Society for American Baseball Research, there have been a handful of occasions where a player has nearly played for both teams in the same game. The closest to doing so was Chris Cannizzaro, who played in the first game of a San Diego Padres-Chicago Cubs doubleheader on May 16, 1971, did not play the second game — which was suspended after six innings — and was then traded to the Cubs a few days later. Cannizzaro also didn’t play when the suspended game was completed on Aug. 4, 1971, but he did play in the regularly scheduled game a few hours later.

Could Jansen become the first? A lot could happen between now and Aug. 26, but the possibility will certainly make Jansen’s first game against his former team much more interesting.