Jonathan Herrera misplaced his batting helmet, so he tried on a few of his teammates'

Our reality is full of countless tiny holes, through which all kinds of essential things fall. In a parallel world, someone who looks just like you is folding their laundry and somehow discovering they they now have more socks than they put in the washer in the first place.

That's probably what happened to Jonathan Herrera's batting helmet, because the Cubs switch-hitter couldn't find it when he came up to the plate against the Cardinals in the bottom of the seventh inning of Tuesday night's game. Somewhere in a bizarro Wrigley Field, where maybe the grass is blue and the ivy is actually a sentient god-like organism, another Herrera found himself with two batting helmets. But our world's just had to make do with borrowing Mike Baxter's:

But it didn't quite fit him, so after he saw a few pitches, a bat boy brought him another helmet:

Even though it wasn't his (it appears to be Chris Coghlan's), it was good luck. Right after he put it on, he singled and later came around to score the go-ahead run in what would ultimately be a 5-3 Cubs victory.

And the alternate universe Jonathan Herrera? He's probably turned the mysterious extra batting helmet into an offering to the Ivy God. People in his world must do things like that all the time. How else can you explain this?