Thread: dead ball balk?
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Old Mon Aug 02, 2004, 04:48pm
Tim C Tim C is offline
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Yep, Garth . . .

As we all know these examples are related to live ball situations.

This thread started with a simple issue:

After a dead ball is it possible to have a hidden ball trick?

The answer is elementary:

No, as it is impossible to make a ball live without the proper procedure. It is impossible to have a balk with a dead ball and the ball cannot be placed into live action without proper steps.

This simply gives us one of the TWO examples of "do overs" in baseball.

I don't think people "don't get it," I just think they want to swim upstream against authoritive opinion.

And Peter, we know you hit my response square on the head. A Home run!

Tee



[Edited by Tim C on Aug 2nd, 2004 at 05:50 PM]
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