A Euro step fakeout for the score. This is supposed to be baseball, right?

What better time to bring a signature basketball move to the baseball field than in the middle of the NBA playoffs?

Reds outfielder Dane Myers dusted off his “Euro step” on the diamond against the Rays on Tuesday at Tropicana Field, providing one of the best slides in recent history to add to Cincinnati’s advantage.

With one out in the sixth inning, Myers walked and made it to third base on a double from Matt McLain. His chances of scoring didn’t look good when he broke for home on an Elly De La Cruz ground ball directly to the first baseman, but Myers had a trick up his sleeve.

He faked to the inside of home plate with one step of his left foot, then cut back to the outside to somehow avoid a tag from Rays catcher Hunter Feduccia. Myers dived across the plate, extending his right hand to tag the dish before Feduccia could reach him.

"When I caught the ball and turned back, I realized I was kind of far away from him," Feduccia said. "And then obviously, he kind of did a move I've never seen before."

It was certainly a new take on the classic “swim move” slide, in which a baserunner suddenly switches arms in hopes of surprising a catcher and snagging hold of a base before an incoming tag. And for the difficulty of the two-step improvisation -- first brought to the NBA by Lithuanian player Šarūnas Marčiulionis in the 1980s -- Myers pulled it off quite smoothly.

“That was athletic. Guys could try to do that but most of them probably get hurt. That was very athletic,” Reds manager Terry Francona said.