Mets' Francisco Lindor Helps Promote Steven Spielberg's ‘Disclosure Day'

New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor hasn’t played baseball since April 22 due to a calf strain, but that didn’t stop the five-time All-Star from taking the field at the behest of Steven Spielberg.

MLB posted a 30-second commercial for “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi thriller, starring Lindor.

Lindor is patrolling shortstop as usual when a cardinal conspicuously lands on his shoulder. Then a deer approaches, and the next thing Lindor knows, an ominous cloud-like orb is descending upon Citi Feld.

Lindor’s involvement harkens back to 1997, when Mets outfielder Bernard Gilkey had an eerily similar cameo in “Men In Black.” Spielberg was an executive producer on the iconic film starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

It’s good timing, if nothing else. Mets fans need a jolt of feel-good, with the Mets sitting at 27-35 and last place in the National League East.

Spielberg wrote and directed “Disclosure Day,” which will hit theatres next Friday, June 12. The movie‘s logline reads, “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?”

Sight unseen, yes, it would. But I’d be slightly less frightened if the “Disclosure Day” cast - boasting Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Josh O’Connor, Eve Hewson, and Wyatt Russell - were the ones to inform me of an impending alien invasion kept secret by the government.

Watch the official (and highly disturbing) “Disclosure Day” trailer below. Sadly, it does not include Francisco Lindor.

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This story was originally published June 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM.