The Mets lost by so much that their broadcasters began reading the media guide over classical music

There may be no more creatively challenging task in play-by-play than the blowout game, where things are already beyond the point of watchability, and broadcasters have to come up with some kind of way to salvage whatever they’re left with.

That might be even more true in the sport of baseball, and it's definitely true in the New York Mets’ record-settingly awful 25-4 shellacking at the hands of the Washington Nationals. It was the highest margin of defeat in franchise history, and considering Mets franchise history, that’s really something special.

So, what better could the Mets’ broadcast team do to salvage the show than a live reading of the team’s media guide, over what Google tells us is the Fanfare-Rondeau by French baroque composer Jean-Joseph Mouret.

There’s eight minutes of this bad boy.

The 25 runs allowed is the most since the Texas Rangers’ 30-3 win against the Baltimore Orioles in 2007. With baseball, the thing is that with high-scoring blowouts, the game actually gets even longer, because of the batters continuing to round the bases instead of being put out.

It absolutely calls for some opera-ballet.

h/t YouTube/MLB