A bat in the Mets' press box.

Plenty of unusual things happen in press boxes, but a bat invasion is pretty odd even by those standards. That’s what happened with the New York Mets’ press box at Citi Field Tuesday ahead of their game with the Cincinnati Reds. Here’s video of that from Ken Davidoff of The New York Post:

This obviously led to a lot of puns:

It’s just too bad that Matt Harvey isn’t with the Reds any more, or we could have seen a lot of “The Dark Knight Returns” references.

[The New York Post]

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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.