The Detroit Tigers are going to the postseason for the first time since 2014 and if you ask one dedicated (and superstitious) fan, it was all but guaranteed back in April thanks to one player’s symbolic gesture.
In an interview with Bally Sports’ Johnny Kane during Detroit’s game against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday, a fan claimed Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal tossed him a pumpkin seed, which he found unusual until its meaning became clear recently.
Detroit Tigers fan has kept this pumpkin seed Tarik Skubal threw to him in April pic.twitter.com/f1LGEJKF7B
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“I’m here in April, Skubal tosses me this,” the fan said as he pulled out the pumpkin seed. “It was a premonition, why would he toss me a pumpkin seed when he could toss me a sunflower seed?”…