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- Updated: August 13, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — One by one, Royals players stopped by a little cage perched on a coffee table inside the visitors’ locker room before Friday’s game against the Twins at Target Field.
Inside the cage was a mantis, the same one dubbed #RallyMantis by Royals Twitter, which right-hander Ian Kennedy and outfielder Billy Burns brought with them on the plane ride from Kansas City the night before.
The mantis had suddenly appeared hopping around in the Royals’ dugout earlier this week and would not leave. Royals players quickly got attached to it. But now it was hardly moving.
“This isn’t good,” said Burns, the unofficial caretaker of the mantis, as he inspected the insect.
“Call 9-1-1!” shouted right-hander Edinson Volquez.
Burns had a better idea: He got some smelling salts from the team trainers. Burns held the salts up to the mantis, who did perk up momentarily before going still …
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