Why the Blue Jays are wearing a lot of red lately

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The Toronto Blue Jays are looking for any method possible to turn things around.

That includes wearing a lot of red with their uniforms — socks and sleeves and cleats and more.

Red is a Blue Jays staple on Canada Day, but they’re wearing plenty of it just for nondescript regular season games.

For example, you can see Kazuma Okamoto with a bunch of red underneath his uniform in the picture at the top of this article.

It’s not an accident.

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Why are the Blue Jays wearing so much red?

This is baseball’s superstitions reaching Toronto.

“Jeff Hoffman spilled the beans to us in the clubhouse,” Sportsnet’s Dan Shulman said during Toronto’s broadcast on Monday, May 25. “We didn’t really get into whether it’s a bonding thing or a superstition thing, but everybody has bought in.”

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Dylan Cease may have been the trendsetter. In his May 8 start, he rocked a red glove with a red belt, red socks and red sleeves, and he struck out 10 while not allowing a run.

Now, Toronto is going for it by being all-in on red.

The Blog TO reports that the Blue Jays were 9-8 through Monday’s action since Cease broke out the red — that’s better than they had been before then, so maybe there is a little something to the red magic.

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