The baseball season is long and grueling, an unrelenting beast that stretches from the early weeks of February to October. As such, baseball players will do just about anything to break up the monotony — even road tripping with a praying mantis packed into a tiny cage called a “Critter Cabin”.
Yes, the winding saga of the Rally Mantis reached its sixth day on Friday, as the Royals opened a series against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field. It is a story of hope and resiliency and a near-death experience. So let’s just get to it.
By the early afternoon on Friday, the Rally Mantis’s cage had taken up residence on a table inside the visitors’ clubhouse at Target Field.