Hat knitting: Blue Jays think that their World Series 1992 style caps are a charm of luck
New York (AP) – Wanting to cap the Toronto season with a title, Jeff Hoffman suggested changing hats.
Six defeats in seven games had dropped the Blue Jays in equality with New York Yankees for the head of the Al East. This prompted the 32 -year -old lift to send Scott Blinn, Clubhouse Operations Director of the major League of Toronto, rushing to find these retro caps with white panels in the style that the Blue Jays wore when they won the World Series 1992.
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Toronto has a 5-0 file in the historic headgear in the past two weeks, because he takes a 2-0 lead in match 3 of Tuesday evening of the best Division AL series against the Yankees.
“I haven’t thrilled another hat,” said manager John Schneider with a smile on Monday.
After a defeat of 7-1 against the Red Sox at Rogers Center on September 24, Hoffman suggested from Binn a passage to the Headgear of 1992, which was used during the promotion of the weekend of the renowned temple of the major baseball league from July 25 to 27-not because it is superstitious, but because it loved the look. Bearing the white panels, the Blue Jays had taken two of the three in Detroit to finish a series of four games.
“” We need a new combo. What should we wear? “” Said Hoffman, telling the discussion of the players. “And I said,” I know what we have to wear. We have to wear the blues, the blue jerseys with the white panel hat. “And they all have a little excited because they didn’t know I knew them.”
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Blinn found the traffic jams in a Rogers Center storage room. Toronto beat Boston 6-1 on September 25, wearing blue alternative jerseys and the White Chapeaus panel. The following night, on Friday, the Blue Jays had to wear Nike Connect uniforms surmounted by blue caps, suggested by Lake Ontario at night. They beat Tampa Bay 4-2 to stay tied with the Yankees.
Most of the time, players decide uniforms to wear. Given this option for the last weekend of the regular season, the Jays stayed with blue jerseys and white hats. They closed with 5-1 and 13-4 victories on the Rays to win the division on an equality break in New York.
Toronto finished season 58-45 in blue caps, 20-17 in two-color hats with powdery blue visors and navy crowns that have been launched with the return of alternative powdered blue jerseys in 2020, 8-3 in the Nike Connect and 5-1 games in white reverse. They were also 1-2 in the caps of the armed forces with beige camouflage crowns and olive visors from May 16 to 18, 1-0 in red for the Canadian festival on July 1 and 1-0 in light blue crowns and red visors for July 4.
The Blue Jays stayed with the caps and white blue jerseys in the first two games in the division series, dressing on the Yankees 10-1 and 13-7.
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“I just wear what’s in my locker. I’m just going to wear what we are told to wear,” said the voltiseur of the quadruple stars George Springer, removing superstitions.
Toronto wore caps with white panels for all the games of its creation from 1977 to 1990 – with white home jerseys – then went to all blue caps for road games in 1991. The Blue Jays dropped the white panel at home on July 6, 1991, in the middle of a five -game game sequence, with Dave Stake, and beaten the visit to Chicago White 5-1 behind six Dave stop series.
“I’m not sure what the blue caps were,” said Stewart after the match, his 150th career victory. “But we won, so maybe we will wear them again.”
Blue Jays’ equipment director Jeff Ross thought about the change “just to see what he looks like with white uniform”.
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“It had nothing to do with the defeats,” said Ross at the time. “We were going so well at home, so I didn’t want to do it while we were going well. It was time to do it. He looks great after a victory. ”
Toronto won his second consecutive world series in 1993, and the entirely blue ceilings remained for most matches. The Blue Jays brought back the white panels on August 16, 2015 for a promotion “Turn back the dial” in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first title of the team’s Al East, and beat the Yankees 3-1. Toronto then used the white panels at least once a season and up to 27 times in 2018 and 24 the following year, according to Uniformlineup.com, but then reduced its frequency.
The team had not carried them since August 27, 2022, before returning this year for the promotion of the weekend of the MLB renowned temple.
“We have been playing well since we wear them, which is difficult for my argument, hey, no matter the hat we wear the guys, as we just need to play well,” said Hoffman.
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And even Springer’s disdain for superstition is only going so far. For example, he will not think of walking on a tasting.
“That,” he said, “would be crazy.”
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