NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays are up 2-0 in the best-of-five American League Division Series , but the white panel hats are on a five-game winning streak.

If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

Baseball is the official sport of superstitions, and after losing six of seven down the stretch to put their lead in the AL East in danger, closer Jeff Hoffman had an idea. He wanted to bring back the old white-panel hats, a look rarely seen since the Blue Jays’ World Series years but always a fan favorite.

“I thought someone was like … playing a joke on me with the hats, you know?” manager John Schneider said after the hats reemerged on Sept. 25 . “You just kind of put on what's in your locker. And I said, ‘What are we doing?’ But yeah, Hoff wanted to kind of just have a different feel of what we wer

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