VIDEO: Tricky College Pitcher Adam Horowitz Has a Whole New Spin on the Hidden Ball Trick
By Jerry Trotta
In baseball, the hidden ball trick is hardly successful. Of course, it transpires when a play has ended and the fielder fakes giving the ball back to the pitcher with the hope of bamboozling an uninformed base runner. Well, a hurler on UMass Dartmouth has completely changed the game in regards to this age old trick. Check out right-hander Adam Horowitz swindle an opponent by...hiding the ball mid-windup.
He showed the batter no ball in his hand or glove and confused him ?
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 9, 2020
(via adrock_5/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/9nGh1wA7KO
How did he do that?
That's just unfair and we seriously feel for the opposing batter, who probably wanted nothing more than to sit on a first pitch baseball. Instead, he probably didn't even see the ball until it was far too late to take a hack.
As one faithful troll on Twitter noted, there's only one team that would have seen this trickery coming: the Houston Astros.
The Astros still would’ve known what pitch was coming
— Jawsh Wuh (@_____josh_) April 10, 2020
This further proves that jokes about Houston's sign-stealing scandal will never not be funny.
As for the clip, we've watched it a dozen times and we still don't know how Horowitz pulled it off. Do NOT try this at home, folks.