I’m not sure there has ever been an athlete with a more appropriate last name than Rice baseball player Blake Fox, who showed this weekend that, yep, he’s as sly as a motherfucking fox while on the bump.
While pitching in a game against Louisiana-Lafayette this past weekend, Fox pulled the filthiest pickoff move I’ve ever seen, pretending to take a quick breather before, oh, shit, psyching out the baserunner by throwing the ball to first base.
You sly rascal https://t.co/9CO9SHJvus
— Andrew Doughty (@DoughtyBetMGM) February 29, 2016
Who knows if the kid was sly enough to think this up himself or if he stole it from another pitcher, but one thing’s for sure, I hope more people get creative in their attempts to catch runner’s off-guard, ’cause this is fucking brilliant.