Seranthony Dominguez. Lexi Thompson-Imagn Images

Pitcher bizarrely faces old team on same day of trade

Originally posted on Larry Brown Sports
By Darryn Albert | Last updated Jul 29, 2025 9:12 PM ET

Seranthony Dominguez certainly had an eventful day on Tuesday.

The veteran MLB reliever began the day on the Baltimore Orioles and was with his teammates in the dugout during the first leg of a doubleheader against the Toronto Blue Jays. The O's went on to win, 16-4, at Oriole Park in Baltimore, though Dominguez did not pitch during the game.

But the day took a bizarre turn when the two teams agreed to a deal in the middle of the doubleheader. The Orioles traded Dominguez to the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown.

That led to a strange scene where Dominguez switched clubhouses after being traded, walking across the hallway to get to the Toronto side.

Seranthony Domínguez makes the walk from the Orioles clubhouse to the Blue Jays clubhouse after he was traded pic.twitter.com/NhUZJhkV3f
— Danielle Allentuck (@d_allentuck) July 29, 2025

Things got even weirder during the second leg of the doubleheader. Dominguez got the call to pitch for the Blue Jays against his former team. He had to walk past his ex-Baltimore teammates to get to the Toronto bullpen, and then entered the game in the seventh inning to pitch.

Here is the unusual spectacle that saw Dominguez pitch against the guys that he began the day as teammates with.

Seranthony Domínguez was traded between games of the Blue Jays-Orioles doubleheader

He walked past his old teammates to get to the Blue Jays bullpen pic.twitter.com/PVMgOIbBoL
— MLB (@MLB) July 29, 2025

The whole thing was so bizarre that it even looked like Dominguez received a hastily-made Blue Jays jersey with the “8” in his No. 48 apparently stuck on backwards.

Dominguez’s new jersey seems to have an upside-down 8 #bluejays pic.twitter.com/sJ8vUsxErD
— Rich Ramos (@richramos78) July 30, 2025

Dominguez, a 30-year-old in his seventh MLB season, ended up striking out two in a scoreless frame against his former team.

Seranthony Domínguez recorded two strikeouts against his former team in his Blue Jays debut

(via @BlueJays)pic.twitter.com/Jo3VGmzIPf
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 30, 2025

We have certainly seen instances of MLB players getting traded in the middle of games before, but that had to be the first instance of a player starting the first half of a doubleheader on one team and then pitching in the second half for the other team.

This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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