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Worlds collided on Sunday in the Bronx when the New York Yankees faced a Houston Astros pitcher named Jason Alexander.
The irony, of course, is that the actor named Jason Alexander played the team's "assistant to the traveling secretary" in the hit show, "Seinfeld."
So, as Alexander, the pitcher, was warming up, Yankees announcer Michael Kay and his color commentator, former Yankee and Seinfeld guest Paul O'Neill, gave their scouting report on Alexander, using lines from the show.
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An Astros pitcher with the same name as the man who played the Yankees' "assistant to the traveling secretary" pitched against them on Sunday. (Getty Images)
The notes on the scouting report were, "It's not you, it's me" as a nod to Alexander not knowing he was pitching on Sunday until the day before, "the sea was angry" to make note of his scoreless outing against the Miami Marlins, and "worlds are colliding" due to the obvious nature of the circumstances.
O'Neill made mention that the Yankees are giving away a George Costanza bobblehead on Aug. 21.
Alexander actually took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning - he was the winning pitcher in Houston's 7-1 victory.
O'Neill appeared in the episode "The Wink" in Season 7 as just one of several Yankees to be on the hit series throughout its dominance in the 1990s. It's the one where Kramer (played by Michael Richards) promises a boy in the hospital that he would get the right fielder to hit two home runs in a game in an effort to try to get back a birthday card for Steinbrenner, signed by members of the Yankees, that he had sold.
The former outfielder said
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