Andrew McCutchen may have found a good-luck charm for Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates snapped a three-game losing streak with an offensive outburst on Monday night, and Andrew McCutchen may have discovered a good-luck charm for the team.

Before Pittsburgh's 10-3 win over the Washington Nationals on Monday, McCutchen handed out black-and-gold Phiten necklaces to all his teammates. The necklaces, which are made primarily from titanium and marketed to boost physical performance, were very popular across Major League Baseball when the 38-year-old McCutchen was in his prime.

There has been no real evidence to support that the necklaces provide anything other than a placebo effect. They seemed to work for the Pirates on Monday, as the team strung together a whopping 14 hits.

McCutchen was asked about the necklaces after the win.

"I don't know, because I used to ball out with them back in the day, so might as well give it to the whole team," McCutchen told SportsNet Pittsburgh. "That's what we did today. We put 10 runs up on the field. That's not a coincidence. [I told them] to just put it on and see what happens, and they saw what happened, so we gonna keep rocking with it."