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Old Tue Feb 06, 2007, 08:52am
BretMan BretMan is offline
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Nope, it's not both a "ball" and a "balk".

For this infraction the ball becomes dead and the penalty is a "ball" added to the batter's count. Runners are not advanced.

See the attached link for 2007 NFHS interpretations regarding this rule (situations 7 through 14).

(Note: There are a couple of those situations where a balk IS called, but that's because the pitcher did something else besides just licking his fingers.)

http://www.nfhs.org/web/2007/01/2007...erpretati.aspx

Last edited by BretMan; Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 08:58am.
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