Sat May 28, 2005, 12:04am
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dave Hensley
Quote:
Originally posted by DG
No base runner who has any coaching at all will be picked off by a pitcher who is set and lifts his pivot foot first, no matter how high he lifts it. No rules violation, no balk.
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The success or lack thereof of the move is not what makes it illegal. The fact that it is a designed move, calculated to deceive a runner into believing that the pitcher has begun a motion committing him to the pitch, is what makes it illegal.
You give base runners and coaches more credit for intelligence than, in my experience, they deserve.
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