A bat accidentally flying out of a batter’s hands and into the crowd is a scary thing, no matter who’s at the plate.
But when it’s coming out of the hands of Oneil Cruz, who has hit the hardest-batted ball in the Statcast era and who let his bat go once before, it’s doubly scary.
In this case, it happened in Thursday’s Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates game in New York. The bat went flying when Cruz struck out, and the security guard who avoided it got caught on camera had a terrified look on his face.
Check it out and the reaction from around Twitter: