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Old Tue Aug 02, 2005, 09:39pm
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
You can't balk with no one on base. See 2-3 ( .. "with a runner(s) ... )and 6-2-4 ("If there is a runner or runners ...")

You can have an illegal pitch, which is a balk with runners on base, and a ball with no runners on. That's the situation here.
I know that is what the rule says, but Rumble has said that it is possible to balk with no one on base, and the penalty is a ball, same as an illegal pitch.
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