Royals manager Ned Yost spoke to reporters following a one-run loss to the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on April 4, 2019. The Royals walked four batters to start the seventh inning in a tie game. By
Before I tried playing the game, I thought baseball superstitions were silly. The idea that eating chicken for every pre-game meal or crossing the foul line at the same time every day had anything to do with what would happen in that night’s game struck me as absurd.
I was wrong.
Baseball is played pretty much every day from mid-February to early November and as a result requires and rewards consistency.