Yadier Molina completely fooled by a bizarre twist on the 'hidden ball' trick

Although there literally are thousands of baseball games played in each major-league season, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll see something you’ve never seen before if you watch closely enough. And that certainly was true in Thursday’s Cardinals-Cubs matchup.

Yadier Molina – an eight-time Gold Glover who never looks foolish behind the plate – tried to block a ball in the dirt. He was successful but didn’t realize it. As he looked around frantically for the ball, he didn’t realize it was somehow stuck to his chest protector.

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What is this sorcery?!?

Molina couldn’t do that again if he tried – and he probably won’t. That wild pitch resulted in a strikeout, but Matt Szczur reached first on the folly. Jon Jay followed with a walk, and Kyle Schwarber then crushed a three-run homer to give the Cubs a 5-4 lead.

In other words, it was exactly how Chicago planned that seventh-inning rally.