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Originally Posted by Steven Tyler
Bases loaded. Defense calls time. You grant it. Infield including catcher gather up around the pitcher. Pitcher shuttles ball to F5 during the pow wow. As everyone goes back towards their positions, the catcher is set, the batter is set and the pitcher is straddling the rubber in the set position. You are waiting to put the ball in play when the pitcher toes the rubber. About this time, F5 tags R3 off the base with the ball. You call balk and award all runners one base.
You now have a balk during a dead ball situation.
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No, you have publicly proved that you are a moron who has no business being on a baseball field as an umpire.
Nothing any player does with or without the ball during a dead-ball sitch can cause runners to advance or be put out [OK, well, excepting that bizare FED creature, the dead-ball appeal] while the ball remains dead, and nothing the pitcher does can cause a balk during a dead ball.
If this same scenario happens, except the tag of the runner happens AFTER the ball is made live, it is nothing more than a "do-over" because the umpire messed up by making the ball live when F1 didn't have it. If the foregoing is true [and it is], then only a complete ignoramus could call a balk in the same sitch while the ball is still dead.