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A Smelly, Unwashed Shirt
Might Be The Key To The Astros
Winning The World Series
Nothing can stand in the way of a baseball player and his superstition -- not even the proven benefits of clean laundry.
On Sunday,
the Astros beat the Nationals, 7- 1, in Game 5 of the World Series, capping off a con- vincing and, for Nats fans, devas- tating weekend that saw Houston turn the series around and head back to Houston one win away from a World Series champi- onship. They did it with dominant pitching and an explosive offense, sure, but that wasn't the main source powering Houston's dra- matic
weekend: That w ould be third baseman Alex Bregman's stinky pink plaid shirt.
He wore it head- ing to Nationals
Park for Game 3 on Friday ... and the Astros won.
He wore it head- ing to Nationals Park for Game 4 on Saturday ... and the Astros won.
He wore it head- ing to Nationals Park for Game 5 on Sunday, and
... well, you know. The Astros won.
I mean. You can't argue with results like this. I don't care if you're into "statistics" and "data" and things like correlation and causation, because baseball superstitions are always extremely amusing to think
about. And in Bregman's case, a professional athlete wearing the same shirt three days in a row seems ... adventurous, to say the least.
He has to sit on the bus next to teammates on the drive from the hotel to the ball-
park, after all. That thing might smell pretty rank.
But you know what? I'm sure Bregman's Astros teammates are totally fine with it. After all, they're undefeated dur- ing the reign of Bregman's favorite shirt, so who are they to
tell him to put on something else?
Now that the secret's out on Bregman's shirt, we'll have to wait and see if it deliv- ers in the clutch once again or crumbles under the pressure of everybody know- ing all about it ...
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