Baseball players are very superstition people and have been known to keep some very strange habits if they thought it helped them win. Since he came to the team Oliver Perez has been known for the "Ollie Hop", as he's come off the field he has always hopped over the foul line.When he's pumped it's been an exaggerated jump with a fist pump but even when he got rocked he would make a point to at least skip over the line. In last night's game he never made such a move, he walk straight off the field and it even looked like he may have actually touched the line in two innings, even in Ollie's worst outings he would make an effort to avoid the foul line.Maybe a determined walk off the field is what the Baseball Gods were looking for instead some superstitious adherence to boundaries, since this was his best outing of the season. Ollie struck out four and three of them came as the last out of the inning and in one situation there was a man on third. In all he...
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