No, your eyes weren\u2019t deceiving you, Jays fans. That was Colonel Sanders behind the plate.<\/p>\n
A man looking very much like founder of KFC, right down the white suit, hair, mustache and Van Dyke beard, was seen sitting behind home plate during Saturday night\u2019s Game 2 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. <\/p>\n
The colonel became a viral sensation during the game as fans took to social media, theorizing about who the mysterious man was. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t tell if last night was a fever dream or not, but apparently the biggest X factors in World Series Game 2 were Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Colonel Sanders and the Jonas Brothers,\u201d posted @BlueJayHunter on X. <\/p>\n
While some X users speculated it might have been a publicity move, others thought the colonel was a fake. <\/p>\n
\u201cHey hey hey, Temu Colonel Sanders doesn\u2019t count,\u201d posted @2oldtorocknroll. <\/p>\n
Still others blamed his appearance for the Jays loss, referencing the Curse of the Colonel, a Japanese urban legend that suggests the colonel\u2019s ghost placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.<\/p>\n
\u201cForget about the Jonas Brothers we all know it was the Colonel Sanders curse,\u201d posted @GerryBrown20. <\/p>\n
The Jonas Brothers performed a song after the fifth inning in another celebrity appearance during Saturday\u2019s game that took some by surprise. The performance was announced the day before. <\/p>\n
So who was the man in white behind the plate? <\/p>\n
KFC confirmed he was indeed someone sent by the company to promote their newly renamed sandwich.<\/p>\n
The fast-food chain is changing the name of its \u201cfan-favourite\u201d Zinger Sandwich to the Dinger Sandwich to support the Jays.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the nation\u2019s baseball fever hit new heights, we knew we had to step up to the plate with something just as bold,\u201d Azim Akhtar, interim chief marketing officer with KFC Canada said. \u201cWe decided to change the name of our iconic Zinger sandwich to the Dinger, as our way of feeding that Canadian baseball fandom, celebrating the hits, the hype and the moments that bring fans together.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the spotlight shining brightly on the Blue Jays, other companies were also trying to step in, with Wendy\u2019s responding, cheekily saying \u201csorry colonel. You are bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 5-1 in Game 2 of the best-of-seven championship. The series now shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Monday night at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n
Fatima Raza, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, your eyes weren\u2019t deceiving you, Jays fans. That was Colonel Sanders behind the plate. A man looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,75,43,890,47,44,82,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-242557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-national","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}