TORONTO — The Minnesota Twins and their fortunate sausage have gone worldwide.
The bagged summer season sausage that the red-hot Twins have been carrying for good luck made it throughout the Canadian border for Friday’s series-opening recreation in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Twins posted a photograph on social media depicting the sausage on the statement deck of Toronto’s CN Tower.
Made it throughout the border ✅ pic.twitter.com/BPCtt76ddT
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) Could 10, 2024
Hitting coach David Popkins cooked up the sausage superstition final month, grabbing an unopened summer season sausage from a desk within the clubhouse and inspiring his gamers to faucet it earlier than at-bats.
The sausage has already been on one Twins street journey, double-sealed in a plastic bag and stuffed right into a shoe.
Twins supervisor Rocco Baldelli mentioned the sausage made the journey with the workforce, however would not spill the beans on how the well-traveled piece of meat made it over the border into Canada.
“I wasn’t in control of the sausage; I cannot be in control of the sausage,” Baldelli mentioned earlier than Friday’s recreation.
The Twins have received 15 of 17, taking their previous 5 sequence. Minnesota is 22-15 general, 1 1/2 video games behind first-place Cleveland within the AL Central.
Baldelli had beforehand mentioned the Twins would ditch the meat after their profitable streak ended at 12 video games with a loss to Boston on Sunday. However, the sausage caught round by means of a house sequence in opposition to the Seattle Mariners during which the Twins received three of 4.
The Twins are not any stranger to distinctive home-run celebrations. Final season, they introduced a fishing vest and toy fishing pole to the dugout, a nod to the state’s 10,000 lakes.