Why Seattle Mariners fans are putting shoes on their heads against Astros
Seattle Mariners fans put shoes on top of their head to rally during top ninth inning of Game 2 of American League Division Series against the Houston Astros Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, at Minute Maid Park in Houston.With the Mariners playing their first postseason game in Seattle in 21 years, a lot of casual baseball fans around the country might be getting their first look at T-Mobile Park.
You've heard of rally caps? This is the rally shoe, and it’s a new thing Mariners fans are doing, because baseball fans are a weird, superstitious bunch.Mariners trailed the Blue Jays 8-1 in Game 2 of their wild-card series in Toronto. At a T-Mobile Park watch party, a Mariners fan decided a rally cap wasn’t enough to overcome that kind of deficit, so they tried putting a shoe on their head. The Mariners put up four runs in the sixth inning and added four more in the eighth as more and more fans started catching on to the newly created rally shoe.
Ben Cox originally got credit for being the first fan to try the rally Shoe when he put his Birkenstock on his head, but later, he graciously gave credit to another fan he saw do it first.watch party before the 8th inning. We got a few hits and soon everyone had their shoes on their heads. You know what happened next.
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