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Ok, I report the words of the announcers:
Josh Lewin: "Let's go back to Chris Meyers"
Chris Meyers: "The official scorer here, Trey Wilkinson, wants to talk to the officials as well he's paging through the rulebook, it's a so-called balk for now. But Jim McKean, the officials supervisor, said that you called the balk you can't call the play to stop as well if the batter had homered, the HR would have counted and it would have been no balk. So, maybe it was a delayed call on the balk and Oswalt continued through the motion of that pitch for ball 4...."
Steve Lyons: "And that's why I have trouble with this, because if you're gonna call a balk as an umpire, you stop the play, you're very emphatic about it. If there's a 0-0 count on the hitter and you call a balk and the pitcher go ahead and throws the pitch anyway, the runner moves to 2nd base and it's a no pitch. So why it would be any different in that situation?"
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