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Originally Posted by Mountaineer
In LL that is an illegal pitch - even with no runners on base and the penalty is just a ball on the batter. I believe there is no balk in LL. That doesn't start till the Junior League age.
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No - with no runners it's nothing. The call was corrected. LL misplaced the parentheses in the first writing which gave the impression you have. It was correctd via interpretation in "Fairball" and then corrected at the next printing of the rule book.
8.05 offenses are the same in both LL and the higher levels. The penalties are different. Most folks don't really understands why LL chose to alter the nomenclature instead of just keeping "balk" and listing different penalties.