Watch Neymar Jr. try to play baseball with Mets

Tom Gatto

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Neymar Jr. is using his visit to New York to learn a little bit of baseball. The Barcelona and Brazil soccer star spent time at Citi Field, home of the Mets, on Tuesday and was given a crash course on hitting by the coaching staff.

The results? Not bad, but the swing looks more like cricket than baseball.

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Batting Stance Guy, take note.

Neymar filmed a promotion for the Mets after his turn in the cage. He has some down time now that he won't be playing in this month's Copa America Centenario. He will instead represent Brazil at the Summer Olympics in Rio in August.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.