There is a baseball game taking place in a stadium in front of a large crowd. Players are standing at the mound about to make a pitching change. The grim reaper is wearing a baseball glove and is coming on the field to be the next pitcher.
The grim reaper has a glove and is part of a baseball team.
Why would you want the grim reaper to be your relief pitcher? Can the player hand death the baseball without being killed?
I mean, there are closers... and there are CLOSERS.
scene: a baseball field description: There is a baseball game taking place in a stadium in front of a large crowd. Players are standing at the mound about to make a pitching change. The grim reaper is wearing a baseball glove and is coming on the field to be the next pitcher. uncanny: The grim reaper has a glove and is part of a baseball team. entities: Death_(personification), Baseball. caption: I mean, there are closers... and there are CLOSERS.
A closer in baseball is a type of pitcher who is good at finishing games, i.e., playing in later innings. But here, death is literally playing baseball as represented by the grim reaper. The joke is funny because it frames death as a strong "closer" --- death is also quite effective at finishing lives.