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The return throw from the catcher to the pitcher is the most taken-for-granted play in baseball. The only times we seem to pay attention to it is when something goes wrong: the catcher lobs the ball too long or too short, the pitcher has the ball bounce off his noggin, the batter has the ball bounce off his noggin. Saturday, however, provided us with an exception -- the exception? -- to the rule.

Below, you'll see Giants backstop Buster Posey lobbing the ball to Jake Peavy. Nothing special about that, right? Well, normally not. In this instance, though, Peavy had his attention elsewhere.

Virtually every other time, this would end with the ball hitting Peavy somewhere in his torso or head region. Yet Posey evidently channeled some of his inner Klay Thompson, because his throw caught nothing but (glove) netting:

Impressive. Almost as impressive as Posey's last weird baseball trick. You might just say he's a magician, that one.