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!
Citi Field Ghost Fork animation for Senga strikeouts!
👻 😍pic.twitter.com/qKeBpRXHbt— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) April 8, 2023
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.