Standing among a crowd of blue and white in downtown Toronto on Wednesday evening, Maureen Whitehead is kept warm by her George Springer jersey. But as first pitch approached on the night’s match between the Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers, superstition said it would have to come off.

“This jersey I can wear before the game and after the game, but I cannot wear it during the game,” she said. “Every time I wore it (during a game), they lost, so I said, ‘OK, done with that.’ But I love the jersey, so I want to wear it before and after.”

Another superstition for Whitehead includes a fifth-inning change of scenery, where she’ll go upstairs to a spare bedroom. Her husband, Terry, is not allowed in that room for the rest of the game. He says his wife will also banish him to another room

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