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Cal pitcher pulled off one of the craziest baseball trick shots you'll see

By Matt Monagan

Sometimes, you see a trick shot and you might be like: "OK, that's really hard, but I think if I quit my job and work on this for the next eight years, I can probably get it right once." 
Then, there are other trick shots, such as the one Cal baseball player Ryan Mason pulled off during a game between Cal and Stanford on Friday night. Ones that just seem like they should not be humanly possible:

No, that is not an optical illusion. Mason actually fired a baseball through that baseball-sized tube -- that his teammate tossed ever-so perfectly. Here's another slow-mo look:

Would you expect anything less from a man sporting some chopper-style facial hair? I guess we now know after this weekend that anything, everything, is possible.
h/t Big League Stew

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