Was it a flash or a shimmy?

Handle the jiggle, Marlins Man told after pal’s cleavage caper

The woman flashing a St. Louis Cardinals player at Wednesday night’s Miami Marlins game was part of Marlins Man’s grand plan. Sort of. “That was not an accident getting attention and distracting the players,” said Laurence Leavy, the Broward attorney who has grown to national fame for showing up in the expensive seats at sporting events across the country in his bright orange Marlins jersey.

The idea came out of a World Baseball Classic game this spring. Leavy said a few players complained that women who were with him had been jumping behind home plate while the players were in the field, distracting them.

“A couple of the Marlins players reached out to me to say, ‘Tell your girls not to jump up and down … because it distracts us,’ ” Leavy said. “That gave the idea that you could distract the other team, like all the balloons being waved by fans when a [basketball] player shoots a free throw.

“I told the girls next time the Marlins were on national TV I’d bring them. But the Marlins were never on national TV because they suck.”

With the Cardinals in town, ESPN carried Wednesday’s Marlins game. Leavy said he “bought all the seats for two games

in the second row and invited the girls to go.”

“I said, ‘The girls cannot distract the Marlins. They can only jump up and down and cheer when the other team is pitching — and in an important part of the game,’ ” Leavy said.

However, Leavy said he had nothing to do with Korina Evaniuk taking it to another level by pulling at her shirt and shaking her breasts toward Cardinals reliever Brett Cecil as he was about to throw a pitch against Christian Yelich in the sixth inning.

That was an impromptu move, said Evaniuk, 22.

“I hardly planned anything,” she said. “I was literally just sitting there and it just happened. You never know when you’re actually on camera. I don’t know if the camera’s on me or not. The fact they caught me in three seconds of my life — things happen.

“People are saying I ‘flashed’ but I didn’t . ... I was sort of shimmying my breasts a little bit. … I never meant to offend the Marlins or anyone.”

Leavy said he was “signing autographs for kids in the wheelchair section” when that happened.

“I didn’t see it,” he said. “I got a text from a [Marlins official] saying, ‘That’s not good. I know you want to bring sexy into baseball, but don’t do that.’

“I wrote back, ‘I agree with you. I’ll tell them not to do that again.’ It’s OK to jump up and down and cheer. It’s not OK to flash.

“After that, three times in the game, they did it. Two times we got ball four [for the Marlins]. And the last time the Marlins got a hit. So it distracted the pitcher. It worked.”

In terms of the flashing — or pseudo-flashing — the Marlins said in a statement that they “do not condone that behavior, and we have addressed it with the fans in question to ensure that it does not happen again.”

However, Leavy said this won’t be the last we see of the women, nicknamed “Marlins Man’s Mermaids” on social media. He said he’ll be bringing them to the game Monday night.

“They can’t wait for a day game in Miami where they wear bikinis,” he said.

As for Evaniuk, she said that “it’s been a little crazy, a little hectic” since the antics went viral. That moment was actually not shown live on the local Marlins broadcast, as cameras were focused elsewhere. But it was shown on St. Louis’ feed — and all over the internet Thursday.

“I was just having a good time at a baseball game,” Evaniuk said. “Is that not what baseball is about?”