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September 24 — BOSTON — Your “Boston Yellow Sox” may stick around for a while.
The Red Sox, winners of seven straight games, including five wearing the yellow Boston Marathon-themed jerseys, will ride that wave for as long as they can, ideally through October and possibly the playoffs.
“We’re on a good run,” said Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts. “If we win tomorrow, I hope we see it the next day too. I know it’s not white and red, I know we’re not the Yellow Sox, but we need wins now, so if it’s yellow, it’s yellow. “
There is a story behind the Yellow Sox.
Recently, Red Sox manager Alex Cora was watching games from across the league when he noticed a few things.
The San Francisco Giants wore their new MLB-approved Golden Gate Bridge-themed City Connect uniforms.
The Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs also wore their City Connect replacements recently.
So Cora called clubhouse manager Tom McLaughlin and asked him about their own yellow and blue uniforms, inspired by the Boston Marathon.
“We asked Tommy how come we only wore them once?” Cora said during a recent interview with Merloni and Fauria from WEEI.
“He said, ‘It’s up to you guys … We just need to talk to the right people … If you want to wear them again, we will.’”
A few phone calls later, the marathon-inspired substitutes reappeared for last weekend’s three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles.
The Red Sox haven’t lost since. So guess what? Yellow, with a hint of blue, it is.
Known for being a bunch of superstitious, baseball players are known to stick to a routine, especially when things are going well. Or change it when the going gets tough.
And by the way, if they continue to win, nothing prevents them from staying with the yellow until the end.
An MLB spokesperson confirmed Thursday that teams are allowed to wear City Connect uniforms on the road, and if they so choose, they can wear them in the playoffs as well.
This means that if the Red Sox were to sweep the Yankees off while wearing the yellow substitutes this weekend and stretch their winning streak to 10, they could theoretically bring them on their final road trip to Baltimore and Washington to try to maintain the sequence.
They could then wear yellow in the AL Wild Card game, whether in Boston, Toronto, New York or wherever, and stay with them wherever the playoffs take them after that.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Red Sox have rallied to a single color in October.
During the 2018 World Series, Boston wore their alternate blue uniforms on the road in all three games at Dodger Stadium, including the Championship game. 95 out of 153 games (62%).
Until recently, the yellows weren’t part of the regular rotation. Launched this spring, the MLB City Connect uniforms were designed to celebrate the bond between each team and their city. The Red Sox uniforms were inspired by the Boston Marathon, a nod to the club’s connection to running and the events following the 2013 Marathon bombing.
The uniforms use the iconic yellow and blue color scheme of the race and feature a replica of the race bib with the Boston area code “617” on the sleeve. The team wore the uniforms twice in April on Patriots’ Day weekend, but didn’t wear them again until this week.
Now the avant-garde uniform set has taken on a life of its own, and even the most traditionalist among the Red Sox have stepped on it.
“I love them! I love them. I know that might surprise some people,” said Red Sox ace Chris Sale, who typically went for the club’s classic whites on start dates and ripped a set. of uniforms back. while a member of the White Sox. “I think it’s great and obviously what it means means even more to us.
“It’s kinda crazy, right? We wear yellow, we wear baby blue, we’re a red, white, gray, blue team, but that makes it fun,” continued Sale. “I think you’re going to see them a little more because we’re playing well with them, and for now we’re going to keep going and have fun with them.”
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