[Helfand] Kyle Farmer left a summer sausage he received from Cloverdale on a table in the clubhouse. Hitting coach David Popkins grabbed it and brought it into the dugout during a game against Chicago. It’s brought them luck, so now Twins hitters tap the sausage before they go to hit.

17 comments

1. *Twins hitters tap the sausage before they go to hit*

   What

2. If the meat is lucky who am I to question it.

3. Twins tapping sausage.. I’ve seen this somewhere..

4. Twins “tap the sausage…”

   Yeah they do. 😘

5. Tangy garlic or original?

   https://www.amazon.com/Cloverdale-Tangy-Summer-Sausage-Ounce/dp/B0CKW6KDMQ/ref=asc_df_B0CKW6KDMQ?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80195818951984&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583795283519110&psc=1

6. Man baseball’s just so silly sometimes

7. If they are really desperate someone better eat it.

8. In other news, Reese McGuire is now asking for a trade to the Twins…

9. How can you not be romantic about baseball?

10. I love baseball

11. Anyone ask David Cone for comment?

12. What was the source of the magic, the sausage or playing the White Sox?

    Also if they start losing, are they allowed to eat it? 

13. This is the most baseball superstition and I love it

14. Guess the new pasta needed sausage.

15. Twins, every day, sausage… two. ✌️

16. “Tap the sausage”, you say?

17. Things like this are why Baseball is the greatest game.