Sat May 28, 2005, 10:53am
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Winchester, VA
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Originally posted by Kaliix
"The pitcher makes any motion naturally associated with his pitch while he is not touching the pitcher's plate"
Isn't lifting your leg up to your waist or chest a MOTION naturally associated with his pitch?
Just because it's the other leg, the MOTION is still associated with his pitch.
Balk!
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Originally posted by cbfoulds
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originaly posted by Dave Hensley
My response to a request for an explanation would be "he violated 8.05(g), by making a move simulating a pitch while not in contact with the rubber."
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Dave ol' buddy: you'd best actually go back and read the rule you think you are citing.
It is a balk if:....
(g) The pitcher makes any motion naturally associated with his pitch while he is not touching the pitcher's plate;
Note that a move "simulating" a pitch [whatever that may mean - here you are apparently using it to mean something that sorta-kinda looks like but is NOT "a motion NATURALLY associated with" the pitch] IS NOT FORBIDDEN by this rule.
Lifting the pivot foot/leg IS NOT a motion "naturally associated" with ANY pitching delivery. It is not a balk. If F1 intends to decieve the runners, he can suceed if and only if the runners and their base coaches are all entirely brain-dead. If that is darwinian of me, GOOD!
To repeat: the only rule violated by this move is the old: don't-do-anything-so-ugly-that-it-wakes-up-the-umpire, lest he balk it on the principle that if it's that ugly it must be illegal, -Rule[9.01Q]. However, that Rule only applies in CalvinBall, so most of us are not supposed to be using it.
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Not if it's your PIVOT foot/leg.
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