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The pitcher's "normal" windup includes dropping the hands down, back up over his head, decent leg-kick, and then pitch.
The pitcher's actual motion in this non-balk was dropping his hands (which, even though this is not required, should shut up the early posters saying he didn't), and simply throwing home.
If you think it was simulating a pitch or even vaguely deceptive... watch the batter's reaction. He knew it wasn't a pitch. He relaxed and stepped back, even as the ball came home.
I was watching this game live - and screaming at the knucklehead announcers (as usual) as they stumbled over themselves trying to explain this one.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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