Question Playing weapon attack animation

Hi there, I am very new to Unity and working on a game for my capstone project. I have an Item script which lets me interact with items, grab and drop them, and also examine. I also have a PlayerCombat script which controls my attacks and attack animations. But I have worked in the animator and also tried to sort out how I could include that animation once the character picks up the bat in the item script.
So basically, I just need the bat to follow my hand when attacking because it stays in the frozen default state once I pick it up and press attack.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. public class PlayerCombat : MonoBehaviour {
4.  
5.     public Transform attackPoint;
6.     public LayerMask enemyLayers;
7.     public Animator animator;
8.  
9.     public float attackRange = 0.5f;
10.     public int attackDamage = 5;
11.  
12.     public float attackRate = 2f;
13.     float nextAttackTime = 0f;
14.  
15.  
16.     void Update()
17.     {
18.         if (Time.time >= nextAttackTime)
19.         {
20.  
21.             if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0))
22.             {
23.                 Attack();
24.                 nextAttackTime = Time.time + 1f / attackRate;
25.             }
26.         }
27.     }
28.  
29.     void Attack()
30.     {
31.         //Play an attack animation
32.         animator.SetTrigger("Attack");
33.         //Detect enemies in range of attack
34.         Collider2D[] hitEnemies = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(attackPoint.position, attackRange, enemyLayers);
35.  
36.         //Damage them
37.         foreach (Collider2D enemy in hitEnemies)
38.         {
39.             enemy.GetComponent<Enemy>().TakeDamage(attackDamage);
40.             Debug.Log("Enemy damage");
41.             AudioManager.instance.PlaySFX("playerHit");
42.         }
43.  
44.     }
45.     void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
46.     {
47.  
48.         if (attackPoint == null)
49.             return;
50.         Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(attackPoint.position, attackRange);
51.     }
52.  
53.     void Die()
54.     {
55.         GetComponent<Collider2D>().enabled = false;
56.         this.enabled = false;
57.     }
58. }
59.  

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using TMPro;
5. using UnityEngine.Events;
6.  
7. [RequireComponent(typeof(BoxCollider2D))]
8.     public class Item : MonoBehaviour
9. {
10.     public enum InteractionType {NONE, PickUp,Examine,GrabDrop}
11.     public enum ItemType { NONE, Static, Consumables }
12.     [Header("Attributes")]
13.     public InteractionType interactType;
14.     public ItemType type;
15.     [Header("Examine")]
16.     public string descriptionText;
17.     [Header("Custom Events")]
18.     public Sprite image;
19.     public UnityEvent customEvent;
20.     public UnityEvent consumeEvent;
21.  
22.     void Start()
23.     {
24.         m_anim = GetComponent<Animation>();
25.     }
26.     private void Reset()
27.     {
28.         GetComponent<Collider2D>().isTrigger = true;
29.         gameObject.layer = 13;
30.     }
31.  
32.     public void Interact()
33.     {
34.         switch (interactType)
35.         {
36.             case InteractionType.PickUp:
37.                 //Add the object to the PickedUpItems list
38.                 FindObjectOfType<InventorySystem>().PickUp(gameObject);
39.                 //Disable
40.                 gameObject.SetActive(false);
41.                 break;
42.             case InteractionType.Examine:
43.                 //Call the Examine item in the interaction system
44.                 FindObjectOfType<InteractionSystem>().ExamineItem(this);
45.                 break;
46.             case InteractionType.GrabDrop:
47.                 //Grab interaction
48.                 FindObjectOfType<InteractionSystem>().GrabDrop();
49.                 break;
50.             default:
51.                 Debug.Log("NULL ITEM");
52.                 break;
53.         }
54.  
55.         //Invoke (call) the custom event(s)
56.         customEvent.Invoke();
57.     }
58. }