The Mets made a cute strikeout graphic and it went horribly wrong

Oh, nobody thought this one through.

Everybody has done something at work they didn’t really think through, but it’s not often that it happens in front of a full baseball stadium. Unfortunately for the New York Mets that’s exactly what occurred on Tuesday night at Citi Field for their game against the Pirates.

Believe it or not, this actually somehow makes sense — at least logically. The Mets put this on the board for pitcher Kodai Senga, whose signature pitch is the Ghost Fork. So, every time Senga struck out someone with the pitch they put up a cut little graphic of a ghost holding a fork.

Normally this would be utterly benign — until Senga came out and Ryne Stenek entered the game, getting three strike outs with a pitch other than the Ghost Fork. That led to the stadium reverting to the normal “K” for stikeouts, which was then unfortunately preceded with something that looks very, very wrong with the context of “KKK” being after it.

Not going to lie though, the Ghost Fork is cool as hell. To a batter it looks like a fastball, but suddenly it just vanishes, reappearing at the bottom of the zone and forcing players to chase it.

Maybe next time just think twice before mixing the whole graphic.