Strangely enough, superstition is key in sports, almost on par with good equipment, talent, and practice. \u00a0It can affect a team\u2019s entire demeanor during a game when \u201cbad luck\u201d strikes. \u00a0When bad luck strikes, breaking the streak is a must. \u00a0Case in point? \u00a0The Angels and one baseball bat.<\/p>\n

During the 1999 season, the (then) Anaheim Angels were having…not so great of a season. \u00a0Losing 16 of the 20 games played thus far after the All Star game break was having a major disheartening effect on the team. \u00a0Did someone accidentally wash their lucky underwear? \u00a0No one copped to it, but we have our suspicions. \u00a0Nonetheless, they needed to catch a leprechaun-lucky break somehow. \u00a0So what did they decide to do? \u00a0Reset (in a fashion).<\/p>\n

The team decided they would use one bat<\/a> for their first round of batters during their game against the Kansas City Royals. \u00a0They chose centerfielder Jim Edmonds\u2019 barely used bat (Edmonds had been out of commission until 2 days prior) to do the job.<\/p>\n

It worked.<\/p>\n

Of the first 9 batters who used the bat, 4 of them got hits using the bat, which was better than how they\u2019d been playing recently. \u00a0The Angels went on to win the game 4-3 and turned their luck around for the season. \u00a0Was it the bat?\u00a0 We can\u2019t say DEFINITIVELY that it was, but just in case, we are going to polish our lucky horseshoe and hunt for 4-leaf clovers in our yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strangely enough, superstition is key in sports, almost on par with good equipment, talent, and practice. \u00a0It can affect a team\u2019s entire demeanor during a game when \u201cbad luck\u201d strikes. \u00a0When bad luck strikes, breaking the streak is a must. \u00a0Case in point? \u00a0The Angels and one baseball bat. During […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}