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Originally Posted by DonInKansas
This is the key, if I am reading you correctly. Once your hands come together, you cannot break them unless delivering the pitch. Balk.
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You can if you're in the Windup and "momentarily adjusting" the ball. However, in this particular situation, what I might do is use a little preventative umpiring: tell the pitcher to stop it, via directly addressing him or more preferably, sending the catcher out to tell him not to do that, and that technically, it's a balk. Truthfully, who really wants to call a balk in this situation?