The curse of Mookie? Ex-Purple Sox star makes ominous WS historical past initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Boston

In the event you’re a Boston Purple Sox fan and consider in unhealthy omens, chances are you’ll not wish to learn this text.

Mookie Betts made his World Collection debut for the Dodgers on Tuesday evening, simply over eight months after the Purple Sox traded him to Los Angeles.

Here is how he fared in Sport 1, an 8-Three Dodgers victory:

2 for 4, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 R, 1 BB, 2 SB

That is referred to as stuffing the stat sheet. It is also referred to as historical past, as Betts grew to become the primary participant ever to file two steals, two runs and a house run in a World Collection sport.

Congratulations to Mookie Betts for turning into the primary participant in World Collection historical past with 2+ steals, a homer, and a pair of+ runs in a single sport! His play tonight…simply WOW!!!

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) October 21, 2020

However that is not the stat that ought to give superstitious Purple Sox followers pause. It is this one:

Mookie Betts is the 2nd participant in World Collection historical past with a stroll and a number of stolen bases in an inning, becoming a member of Babe Ruth in 1921.

Ruth did so within the fifth inning of Sport 2 of the 1921 World Collection in opposition to the Giants. pic.twitter.com/wN6fQaO9sk

— ESPN Stats & Data (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 21, 2020

Betts joined Babe Ruth as the one two gamers to stroll and swipe two bases in the identical inning of a World Collection sport. And Ruth completed his feat in 1921 — two years after Purple Sox proprietor Harry Frazee infamously offered his contract to the New York Yankees.

Whereas Ruth’s Yankees did not win the World Collection that 12 months, the “Curse of the Bambino” hung over the Purple Sox for 86 years from 1918 till their subsequent World Collection title in 2004.

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Betts helped Boston win a championship in his second-to-last season in Boston, identical to Ruth did with the 1918 Purple Sox. So, will Sox followers have to attend one other 86 years for his or her subsequent title as the “Curse of Mookie” takes maintain?

In all probability not. However given the state of the present roster, it will most likely be some time.