Dejected and probably aware his outing was over, he walked slowly off the mound with his head down.
First and foremost, that Baumgartner could pull his stunt off and land on earth with his head still firmly stitched to his shoulders.
After fighting off calls for his head, with a brilliant century for Western Australia last week, he played with authority all afternoon.
"Anytime you see him scrambling around like a chicken with his head cut off, it's shocking, because you don't see it very often, " defensive lineman Trevor Pryce said.
Gatland took the bold decision to make wholesale substitutions, taking off both half-backs along with his loose-head, his hooker and captain and number eight Ryan Jones.
The Frenchman's first effort with the head rebounded off the crossbar and moments later his jinking run in the box resulted with a shot which narrowly missed Flowers' right-hand post.
He took off his broad-brimmed straw hat so as to show off, or so it seemed, his full head of black hair with a few strands of gray at the temples.
But victory did come at a cost for Warrington, who were without winger King for the second half after he succumbed to a hip injury sustained in scoring his try in the corner, while captain Adrian Morley went off with a head injury nine minutes into the second half.
Ponting, by contrast, was immediately into his stride, getting off the mark with a lofted straight drive to the boundary and soon launching Vettori back over his head into the stands.
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Basso came well off his line to deal with Danny Butterfield's hopeful ball into the box but McCombe tried to head it clear, leaving his keeper in no man's land as Watson directed a superb looping header into the unguarded net.
It was perhaps some comfort for Micah Richards, who had to be stretchered off moments before the goal with a head injury and was later taken to hospital with concussion after clattering into his team-mate Nigel de Jong when trying to clear the ball.
Later in the program, we head to Detroit, where an official task with paying off the city's massive debt has his eye on works in the city's famous art institute.
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