Sports fandom is really something else.
This also applies to baseball, one of the sports with the most superstitions and traditions.
Fans will resort to some of the weirdest, funniest, and unconventional practices if they feel that gives their team the best chance to win.
Once they find something that “helps” them get their goal of contributing to their team’s victory, they will keep doing it until it stops working.
Something like this happened to the Seattle Mariners over the weekend.
You will hardly find a hungrier fan base this October: the Ms just broke a 21-year playoff drought, but they want more.
They just swept the higher-seeded Toronto Blue Jays in Canada, and did it with some help from a superstition fan.
“This is Ben. Ben put his shoe on his head at the @TMobilePark watch party before the 8th inning. We got a few hits and soon everyone had their shoes on their heads. You know what happened next. The “Rally Shoe” is officially being kept for the Mariners Hall of Fame. Baseball,” the Mariners’ official Twitter account wrote.
This is Ben. Ben put his shoe on his head at the @TMobilePark watch party before the 8th inning. We got a few hits and soon everyone had their shoes on their heads. You know what happened next.
The “Rally Shoe” is officially being kept for the Mariners Hall of Fame. Baseball. pic.twitter.com/XtX1dveuXw
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) October 9, 2022
Seattle Turned Things Around With The Help Of Ben
Here is what happened: on Saturday, with the Mariners down 9-5, Ben decided that putting a shoe on his head would help the Mariners spark a comeback.
It actually did!
In the top of the eighth, a J.P. Crawford “double” (a popup that landed in center field between three Blue Jays gloves) cleared the bases and capped a four-run rally that tied the game at nine runs apiece.
Seattle would take the lead in the top of the ninth and defeat Toronto at their home.
The Mariners were down 8-1 at one point, but didn’t surrender.
They got some help from Ben, and everybody was wearing a shoe on their head by the ninth inning.
Baseball.
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