Hidden ball trick, revealed

Todd Jones relates with his own words how the hidden ball trick was successfully executed by Mike Lowell and himself.

Definitively, this is one of the best plays I've ever seen, and it's very interesting to learn, from first hand, how it exactly happened.

So I'm behind the mound. I grab the rosin bag; that's something I can do. Then I get the bright idea to make hand gestures to the catcher, like where I'm going to throw it once I get the ball hit back to me. Then I turn to Alex Gonzalez, our shortstop, as if to tell him, hey, if it's hit to me, I'm throwing it to you to start the double play. After I've done all that, the guy is still not off the base.

Now what do I do? Just at that time he steps off the base and, boom, Mikey tags him. It was perfect. The manager came out to argue, but there was nothing he could say. We pulled a fast one.

Way to go Marlins... but now try to make a better trick, win the wild card.

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