All warfare is based on deception. It can be useful in baseball, too, as it turns out.
Watch this high school baseball team pull off a clever misdirection play to pick off the runner at second by using their shortstop as a decoy, setting him up for the pickoff.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CslehUkvLDE/?hl=en
Magnificent.
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