Baseball Bat

"This brings back some good memories."

- Nick

"That's a home run!"

- Ellis

The Baseball Bat is a close combat weapon, introduced in Left 4 Dead 2. Originally, the Baseball Bat was a pre-order related item: if at least one player on a team pre-ordered the game, the Baseball Bat would appear in every safe room and the Baseball Bat would not disappear when picked up, allowing every member to pick it up. For players who have downloaded The Passing, the Baseball Bat is now randomly found alongside the other melee weapons in all maps, and acts like a normal melee weapon.

The Baseball Bat is classified as a Bludgeoning weapon, and will splatter blood onto your screen. As a Bludgeoning weapon, it can knock an Infected's head off. Aside from causing this decapitation, it cannot cause any kind of gib (not counting the Boomer's explosion on death).