It’s like an old wives’ tale or something sailors would whisper when a pelican sneezed. It was a superstition that I heard over and over again from my mom growing up, and it was too convenient to be true. Yet it feels like it’s true every time.
If you score too many runs in one game, you’ll get shut out in the next game.
There are regional variations, of course. It doesn’t have to be a shutout. It can be standard fecklessness. The general fear remains the same, though. Keep piling on in one game; wish you had some of those runs in the freezer to thaw out for the next game.