As far as I’m concerned, Mike Pelfrey’s performance was the highlight of last night’s Mets-Pirates game.

Not the pitching part — though Big Pelf looked great, retiring 20 of the last 21 batters he faced, striking out six and walking none and keeping the Pirates in the park.

Nay, the best part of the game came in the third inning, when Pelfrey got something in his eye and SNY’s camera caught him making all sorts of hilarious zombie faces while trying to get it out.

I tried to photoshop this to make him look like a Walking Dead zombie, but it turns out the makeup department on that show gets all sorts of credit for a reason.

The upside to being a Major Leaguer is that you get millions of dollars to play baseball for a living. The downside is that if you get something in your eye, some jackass blogger posts your reaction on the Internet for everyone to see. I happen to make a very similar face every morning when I put my contacts in. My wife taunts me for it. Luckily there are no HD cameras in my bathroom. Or SD cameras, for that matter.

Hat tip to Michael Baron for the screengrab.

Everything you hoped it would be. Via Alex Belth:

I guess there’s less turquoise than I remembered, but here it is: