Hey, baseball’s back and it’s still so weird. Look at this thing that happened:

In the top of the seventh of the Cubs-Cardinals game on Thursday, a baseball thrown by Brett Cecil eluded the bat of Cubs hitter Matt Szczur, bounced near home plate, hit catcher Yadier Molina in the chest protector, then decided to shirk its responsibility to physics altogether and instead just nestle right there against Yadi’s belly. It only really makes sense if baseballs are now metal and Yadier Molina is entirely made of magnets.

Despite whatever powerful adhesive he’s apparently using to glaze his chest protector, Molina expected the ball to follow a more traditional course than the one it took. While Szczur took off for first, the catcher scrambled around a while wondering where the heck the ball might have gone before remembering that it’s Velcro Day in Major League Baseball and it was right there near his bellybutton the whole time.

Szczur reached safely and came around to score on a Kyle Schwarber homer later in the inning.

Per the MLB rulebook, doctoring a baseball with any foreign substance calls for a ten-game suspension, but it’s unclear if there are rules explicitly banning the use of catching equipment constructed of cotton candy and bubble gum. Maybe this will become a whole thing, but mostly it’s a silly thing. How the heck did that baseball stick to Yadier Molina?