Thread: Balk ruling
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Old Sun Jun 06, 2004, 12:07pm
Kaliix Kaliix is offline
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As many have correctly stated already, that is a balk.

It was called in a MLB game last week by Hunter Wendlstat on Octavio Dotel of the Houston Astros. Dotel came to the set position with his foot off the rubber and balked home the winning run.

Doooh!
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