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The Mets have found the perfect jumbotron celebration for Kodai Senga ghost fork strikeouts

Ghost fork celebrations at Citi Field!

The New York Mets have fully embraced the ghost fork.

The dangerous pitch from Mets ace Kodai Senga has taken the MLB by storm and is already causing opposing batters plenty of problems.

Senga even has a little ghost fork logo on his pitcher’s glove (seen above). It’s a thing now, and it’s always going to be until MLB hitters learn a way around it.

The Mets have found a really fun way to celebrate a Senga strikeout when he uses the unorthodox pitch.

On the Citi Field jumbotron, the team now rings in a Senga strikeout with an 8-bit animation of a ghost holding a fork and spells out Senga’s name behind it with the same font used in the Sega video game logo (the folks who did Sonic the Hedgehog).

Like, c’mon, that’s absolutely adorable. Look at the little fork!

If you play at Citi Field and Senga gets you with his ghost fork pitch, you can at least take heart that you’re going to head back to the dugout with the cutest little guy saying hello to you on the jumbotron.

Kodai Senga threw the ghost fork for his first MLB out and completely embarrassed Yuli Gurriel in the process

The ghost fork is NO JOKE.

When the New York Mets signed pitcher Kodai Senga from Japan this offseason, fans quickly got to learn about the 30-year-old’s signature pitch. And yes, it’s as spooky as it sounds.

Senga — who posted 2.42 ERA during his time in Japan — throws a fastball that tops out at 99 mph to go along with his own off-speed variation of the forkball called a “ghost fork.” It had been his get-out pitch throughout his career in the Japanese NPB, and on Sunday, that pitch was in action for the first time in a regular season MLB game.

The Marlins’ Yuli Gurriel was Senga’s first strikeout victim, and I don’t think anyone could’ve really anticipated the ghost fork doing this to a seasoned big-league hitter.

The ghost fork had Gurriel losing his bat in a wild, off-balance swing. That movement truly was something else, and Senga struck out eight batters in the game — all with the ghost fork.

The Mets would go on to win, 5-1, behind Senga’s 5.1 innings of three-hit baseball. It’s safe to say that fans took notice to the ghost fork as well.