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Originally Posted by 3appleshigh
Well, i know in Canada anyway, an APPEAL is not a play, so he would not have been throwing over for the purposes of making a play.
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Snotty Canadian comment aside, ordinarily you're right about an appeal not being a play. But as Rich Ives's post indicates, pro instruction is to treat a missed-base appeal as a play for the purpose of enforcing the balk rule.
I doubt, however, Andy Pettitte knew that.