Manu Ginobili catches a live bat during game

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Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs caught a live bat during the Spurs’ 113-94 victory over Sacramento on Saturday night. You can see it all in the above video.

‘That was amazing,’ teammate Tony Parker told the Associated Press after the game. ‘The legend continues with Manu. Unbelievable. ... He’s always doing crazy stuff.’

Late in the first period, a bat swooped into San Antonio’s AT&T Center and descended onto the court. Players scattered and officials stopped play. That’s when Ginobili performed his Halloween trick, swatting the bat out of the air with a bare hand. He then carried the creature off the court to thunderous cheers.

As the theme song to ‘Batman’ played, a few Sacramento players applauded too. A trainer emerged to squirt sanitizer on Ginobili’s hand. ‘When you can’t dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news,’ Ginobili said. ‘So that’s what I did. I grabbed a bat. I didn’t think it was a big deal.’

-- Houston Mitchell