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Originally posted by mick
It is a balk if a pitcher steps (ie, steps and throws, or steps and feints a throw, or steps only) to an unoccupied base unless a runner is advancing toward and trying to acquire such base.
What was the free foot doing? Still planted or was direction and distance being applied?
mick
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Since he turned towards
second and feinted, which was the last legally occupied base of the runner at the time, why does this matter?
[Edited by GarthB on May 22nd, 2004 at 02:38 PM]