The 40-year-old Todd Helton who will be retiring after the end of this season may be a bit slower on the field than he once was, but his baseball I.Q. is as sharp as ever. Check out the Rockies’ first baseman successfully fool Matt Carpenter of the Cardinals with a very plain version of the hidden ball trick during Thursday’s extra-inning affair. It may have not have been the sexiest hidden ball trick we have ever seen, but it was perfectly effective.

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