Overview
- A man dressed as Colonel Sanders sat behind home plate during World Series Game 2 at Toronto’s Rogers Centre and was repeatedly shown on the broadcast.
- KFC Canada said it placed the costumed fan to publicize renaming its Zinger sandwich to the Dinger, with the interim CMO describing it as a nod to Canadian baseball fever.
- Social-media posts connected the in-park promotion to Japan’s long-referenced “Curse of the Colonel,” though no official controversy has been reported beyond online reaction.
- Complex reported the individual gestured and playfully heckled Dodgers players, specifically naming Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.
- The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 5-1; Complex credited Yamamoto with a complete game, and the series now shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Monday.