Imagine playing a match and there being someone on the opposing team who looks just like you.
I’m talking same height, same hair colour, same matching beard and same glasses. And then just to top off the weirdness, they’ve got the same name and are playing in the same position.
Sounds like some kind of prank, right?
But these look-alike athletes really did end up taking a DNA test to see if they’re actually related as the similarities seemed too bizarre to be a coincidence.
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Brady Feigl and, well, Brady Feigl, look almost like long-lost brothers and when you see them side-by-side, you’d be forgiven for assuming they’re related.
The two minor league pitchers in the US both stood at 6ft4 in height, shared the same red hair and ‘bushy ginger beard’ as well as both wearing glasses.
One played for Single-A affiliate of the Oakland A’s while the other pitches for the Texas Rangers’ Triple-A club. And the only notable difference was that one was left-handed while the other threw right-handed.
When the pair were first featured by Inside Edition back in 2018, people automatically suspected they had to be related - even suggesting they could be twins separated at birth.
“The week that it hit TV my phone blew up, I felt like I had to put it on airplane mode and put it down,” one of the men explained.
And as their story picked up more attention, the pair arranged for a DNA test to find out the truth.
The baseball players were stunned when they found out they were both ‘53 percent Germanic Europe’. However, if they were really identical twins then all their other numbers would’ve matched but that wasn’t quite the case.
While one of them had two percent ‘Ireland and Scotland’, the other had 10. There were also differences with one of them being four percent Italian and the other having no link to Italy at all.
So basically, in an almost weirder outcome the two Feigls aren’t related at all, they just look an awful lot like one another.
“We’re still brothers in a way, I guess,” one said.
As the other responded: “And we’re always gonna be Brady Feigl.”
Well, while they may have been on rival teams, the lookalike pitchers ended up becoming mates as a result of the bizarre coincidence.
Jess Battison