Question

Let's say you are a baseball player who tries to be consistent in how he/she pitches. After a losing streak, you pitch a perfect game and your team wins.
1. If you are pitching the way you always do, what happened to change your luck?


2. Did some altercation in your pre-game ritual lead to the victory? Perhaps you wore different socks or put a charm in your pocket while you played?

3. What might you attribute you victory to? Would this now become a "superstition"?

Answer 1

There is nothing superstitious about baseball. It is all statistics and data. Lets say for every 100 pitches you give up 10 hits to the other team (this is an example...no pitcher is really this good). Well if all 10 of those hits happened in three losing games, and you pitch a perfect game after that you are still pitching with the same consistency if you gave up 1 hit every 10 games.