First pitch details, National Anthem, secret weapon for Yankees' World Series Game 5

If you felt a little Yankees magic in the air during Game 4 of the World Series, you weren't the only one. And if you ascribed that magic entirely to the performance of Ashanti, you might've been the only one.

Still, the superstitious among us certainly would prefer that the 2000s pop songstress return after her National Anthem helped spur a Yankees victory in Game 4. Don't change anything. Keep the Mookie Betts guys out of the building and across the street.

Luckily, the Yankees seem to understand the assignment, inviting the ghosts back in for Game 5. After Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill threw out first pitches in Games 3 and 4, 2009 World Series MVP Hideki Matsui will be back in the building for Game 5 on Wednesday night.

As it turns out, his countryman Masahiro Tanaka was also in the building this week, returing to Yankee Stadium and taking in Game 4 somewhat anonymously. Will he be back in the nosebleeds for Game 5? The people are demanding it.

Yankees' Ceremonial First Pitch Details, National Anthem Singer for World Series Game 5 (and will Tanaka be back?)

Matsui most recently returned to Yankee Stadium for the 2009 team's reunion on Old-Timers' Day in August -- and thank goodness he did. After all, without his performance and Alex Rodriguez discovering the clutch gene, the Yankees would be going on 24 years without a title.

The 35-year-old Matsui won World Series MVP in a landslide despite DHing and not starting Games 3-through-5 at Citizens Bank Park (what a world). Still, he hit .615 with three homers, pinch-hitting in all three road games and socking a dinger in the Yankees' Game 3 win.

He was also in the building the last time an MLB team came from behind down 3-0 in a postseason series. He'd like to see it again.

Handling the National Anthem pregame on Wednesday will be Babyface, as the Yankees go back to the R&B well for a dose of the smoothness. Hopefully, his voice will leave the team as calm, cool and collected as Matsui in a key moment or Tanaka on the mound (please come back).