TORONTO — The Minnesota Twins and their lucky sausage have gone international.
The bagged summer sausage that the red-hot Twins have been carrying for good luck made it across the Canadian border for Friday’s series-opening game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Twins posted a photo on social media depicting the sausage on the observation deck of Toronto’s CN Tower.
Made it across the border ✅ pic.twitter.com/BPCtt76ddT
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) May 10, 2024
Hitting coach David Popkins cooked up the sausage superstition last month, grabbing an unopened summer sausage from a table in the clubhouse and encouraging his players to tap it before at-bats.
The sausage has already been on one Twins road trip, double-sealed in a plastic bag and stuffed into a shoe.
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said the sausage made the trip with the team, but wouldn’t spill the beans on how the well-traveled piece of meat made it over the border into Canada.
“I wasn’t in charge of the sausage; I will not be in charge of the sausage,” Baldelli said before Friday’s game.
The Twins have won 15 of 17, taking their past five series. Minnesota is 22-15 overall, 1 1/2 games behind first-place Cleveland in the AL Central.
Baldelli had previously said the Twins would ditch the meat after their winning streak ended at 12 games with a loss to Boston on Sunday. But, the sausage stuck around through a home series against the Seattle Mariners in which the Twins won three of four.
The Twins are no stranger to unique home-run celebrations. Last season, they brought a fishing vest and toy fishing pole to the dugout, a nod to the state’s 10,000 lakes.