The Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team responded to Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainAnalysis: Biden victory, Democratic sweep would bring biggest boost to economy The Memo: Trump's strengths complicate election picture Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ariz.) on Thursday after McCain blamed his performance during a hearing on staying "up late watching the Diamondbacks night games."

The Diamondbacks tweeted an image of McCain's statement and added the "shrug" emoticon.

McCain released the statement to explain his line of questions to fired FBI Director James Comey during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing earlier in the day.

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His questions "went over people’s heads," McCain explained, and joked that "maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late watching the Diamondbacks night games."

Twitter users mocked McCain's demeanor during the hearing, during which he referred to Comey as "President Comey" and appeared to conflate the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference with the now-closed investigation into Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE's use of a private email server while at the State Department. McCain argued the investigations were "over the same issue" on CNN following the hearing.

McCain concluded his statement by saying he will resubmit his questions in written form to Comey in the near future.