--- title: Taylor Swift Baseball Curse description: The singer is leaving a trail of terrible games in her wake canonical: https://time.com/4057722/taylor-swift-baseball-curse/ author: Rachel Handler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-01T17:27:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:29.298Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Is There Actually a Taylor Swift Baseball Curse? og:description: The singer is leaving a trail of terrible games in her wake og:url: https://time.com/4057722/taylor-swift-baseball-curse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteccc30caa8c6b5df/69886670428a9e50d8ccf6ea/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is There Actually a Taylor Swift Baseball Curse? twitter:description: The singer is leaving a trail of terrible games in her wake twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteccc30caa8c6b5df/69886670428a9e50d8ccf6ea/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Is There Actually a Taylor Swift Baseball Curse? ## Video: The Power of Taylor Swift [Watch (HLS stream): The Power of Taylor Swift](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8) (2:04)  _Published 2015-06-22. One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position_ by [Rachel Handler](https://time.com/author/rachel-handler/) ## Rachel Handler Oct 1, 2015 5:27 PM UTC  Singer Taylor Swift arrives at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, on Aug. 30, 2015. Singer Taylor Swift arrives at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, on Aug. 30, 2015.Jon Kopaloff—Getty Images by [Rachel Handler](https://time.com/author/rachel-handler/) ## Rachel Handler Oct 1, 2015 5:27 PM UTC Things have been going well for Taylor Swift lately, what with her 1989 world tour [selling](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jesselawrence/2014/11/03/taylor-swift-tickets-for-1989-world-tour-could-gross-over-200-million/) big, the cadre of [wildly](http://time.com/4051510/taylor-swift-mick-jagger-1989-concert-music-rolling-stones/) [famous](http://time.com/3955453/taylor-swift-nick-jonas-jealous/) [celebrities](http://time.com/4013030/justin-timberlake-selena-gomez-taylor-swift/) joining her on stage and the litany of [hit albums](http://time.com/3557916/taylor-swift-1989-debut-first-week/) under her belt. In fact, maybe things have been going _too_ well for Taylor Swift lately. A new [ESPN report](http://espn.go.com/espnw/athletes-life/the-buzz/article/13780292/move-drake-taylor-swift-bad-blood-latest-sports-curse) suggests that while Swift may have been lucky this year, she hasn’t shared that good fortune with the places she’s traveled on tour: The baseball teams in the towns Swift visited over the summer have had some suspiciously terrible games. Here’s the breakdown: Pre-Swift concert, the Houston Astros were 55-45 and held the first wild-card spot. But since Swift blew into town in September, Houston has turned in a lackluster 7-11 record, including losing seven of the eight games that followed her appearance. As ESPN—which calls the situation a “curse”—points out, “When was the last time the Astros missed the postseason after being at least 10 games over .500 at the halfway point of the season? In 1989\. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.” And that’s not all. Just two nights after Swift’s Washington, D.C., performance in July, the lights went out at Nationals Park and play was suspended. At the time, the team was leading the NL East, and now—well, let’s just say, they’re not. Lastly, of course, there’s the Padres, who have gone 11-17 since Swift stopped by Petco Park in August. So heed our fair warning, friend: Should you be a baseball player in a town Swift’s about to visit, start running. 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