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Originally Posted by C'monBlue
There are so many things egregiously wrong with this situation that I hardly know where to begin. In no particular order:
1) 9-10 yr. olds don't balk. I've never seen it, and this case illustrates why no one else should see it either. And if you see one, you have to see them all. Let the circus begin.
2) The batter-runner inexplicably ended up at 1B. Brain fart of the collective baseball unconscious.
3) TD entered the field to overturn the umpire. If he would have started umpiring my game, he would have finished it, because I would have been in the car.
4) Tee is asking about a LL situation. This is surely the end of life as we know it.
As for the ruling, it sounds to me like a do-over from the point of the brain fart, followed by the obligatory faux myocardial infarction.
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1) There are most definitely balks at the 9-10 yr old level. If you don't call them in a Mustang League game, you won't hear the end of it, I guarantee you. The pitchers at that level are expected to know what is and isn't a balk by the time any tournament play begins, and the umpires are expected to call balks.
2) Agreed.
3) The TD can stop the game to correct an incorrect ruling. In tournament play, they try to settle protestable situations on the field before continuing. The last thing they want is to have to replay any games on an upheld protest.
4) Again, this is not a Little League situation, as there are no balks in Little League ® baseball at the 9-10 yr old level. This is obviously an organization that has leadoffs, balks, etc.