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Originally Posted by Carl Childress
Sal: You also don't have the BRD because that is covered, of course, in my book.
Before making an appeal, the only reason the pitcher needs to go to the pitcher's plate is when the ball is dead.
This ball never became dead, clearly, or Angel could not have called a balk at all.
Andy didn't need to KNOW anything except he wanted to appeal. He did, properly, and if Angel balked him for throwing to an unoccupied base, he will have heard about long before now.
I plan to email the union office and get their (Rick Roder's) take on this.
As someone pointed out, it's almost always best to think Angel blew it.
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Then I guess we can add (if it already isn't in there) that a pitcher must step off the rubber before he throws to make an appeal to the 25 Common misconceptions of Baseball (ie hands are part of the bat, tie goes to the runner, etc)