Game 2 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays had it all— Yoshinobu Yamamoto ’s brilliance on the mound, a lukewarm Jonas Brothers performance, and a mysterious man in white behind home plate who looked straight out of a KFC ad. The Blue Jays’ bats went cold, but fans couldn’t help wondering if it was Yamamoto’s pitching or that eerie white suit that cursed their night.

When cameras captured the Colonel Sanders lookalike behind the plate, baseball superstitions kicked in. Fans directly thought of the renowned “Curse of the Colonel” from Japan.

Well, in 1985, fans of the Hanshin Tigers tossed a KFC monument into Osaka’s Dotombori Canal to celebrate. The Tigers won that championship, but they didn’t win again for 38 years.

The curse felt true.

The club lost games in 2003 and 2005, and they

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