wezen-ball: The W/L Record of the Brewers’ Racing Sausages

Granillo runs the botulinumbers.

What I wanted to talk about here was another “final” that I witnessed today: the final sausage race of the year. It being a Sunday, the sausage race was a relay race between the regular sausages and a group of “mini-sausages” - little kids dressed in smaller sausage suits. The mini-chorizo (“el chorizito”, if you will) legged out the final half of the race to give the Chorizo his 15th victory of the year. In those 15 Chorizo victories, the Brewers ended up with an 8-7 record, becoming only the second of the five sausages this year to inspire a winning record from the Brewers.

The only other Racing Sausage to herald a Brewers win in a majority of his races was the Bratwurst who, in 11 racing victories, inspired the Brewers to a 9-2 record.

How in the world do I know this? Earlier this season, I used the power of Google and Twitter to go backwards through the season and find out who had won the Sausage Race on any given night. That gave me the definite winners of all but two games this season (June 10 and June 22). After that, I just followed Twitter on a nightly basis to find the winners and keep the standings updated (I have to give a big “thank you” to Bob Brainerd, the Brewers blogger from Fox Sports Wisconsin, who very helpfully announced the Sausage Race winners every night over on Twitter