Thread: Balk or Not
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Old Tue Apr 24, 2001, 03:08pm
BigSky BigSky is offline
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This is Babe Ruth, not Fed, sorry. I know the ruling has to do with the pivot foot. OBR defines PIVOT FOOT as "the foot which is in contact with the pitchers plate as he delivers the pitch". He is doing this strictly to pick off the runner and while I know this pitcher can not deliver the pitch well, with his right arm toward the batter, but I suppose he could?. It is not a question of how he disengages or how he attempts the pick off, bottom line does he balk when he assumes this backwards stretch?
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