BOSTON — The Red Sox wore their yellow and blue alternate jerseys again Tuesday. That’s four straight games sporting them.
What’s going on?
The plan was for the Red Sox to wear the Boston Marathon color scheme uniforms for their three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles this past weekend, then return to their traditional uniforms Tuesday. But the Sox won all three games against the Orioles so why stop? It’s working and baseball obviously is a very superstitious sport.
“We’ll wear them tomorrow,” manager Alex Cora said after the Red Sox won 6-3 over the Mets on Tuesday for their sixth consecutive victory.
“Hey, we’re on a good run,” Xander Bogaerts said. “As of now, I don’t anticipate us changing it for tomorrow. I don’t know about the next day. But hopefully tomorrow we have that thing on again. If we win tomorrow, hopefully we see it the next day also. I know it’s not white and red. I know we’re not the Yellow Sox. But we need wins right now. So if it’s yellow, it’s yellow.”
Bogaerts said he can’t recall one specific person deciding the team needed to keep wearing the yellow and blues after Sunday’s win.
“Not that I can recall but I think in here we have some smart people,” Bogaerts said. “I think they made the right choice of putting on the yellow. And hopefully tomorrow we wear the yellow again.”
The alternate uniforms are part of Nike’s MLB “City Connect” series. The Red Sox wore them during Patriots’ Day weekend in April.
“If we keep winning, I think we’re going to keep wearing (them) the rest of the season,” Eduardo Rodriguez said.
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