How Milwaukee’s silly sausages became one of the most beloved spectacles in baseball

(CNN) — The Milwaukee Brewers are deadly serious about their baseball this season.

Finishing with the best record in MLB, they’re hoping that this will be the year they can finally win a World Series as their playoff campaign begins on Saturday. But this is a franchise that doesn’t always take itself too seriously, and a run to the Fall Classic would help showcase one of the most wonderfully ridiculous servings in sport: The slapstick sixth-inning sausage race.

It’s exactly as absurd as it sounds. Human runners, wearing 7-foot-tall foam costumes with goofy faces and colorful features depicting a Bratwurst, Polish, Italian, Hot Dog and Chorizo, race each other around home plate on the warning track. The comedically top-heavy sausages, which can easily topple forwards into the dirt, tempo