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Originally Posted by blueump01
Rich, I work a lot of LL games. I have to disagree with what you are saying. Where in "Fairball" is this interp?
With that being said, this is an illegal action by the pitcher. This classifies as an Illegal Pitch, ball on batter. What you are suggesting is that runners have to be on for an illegal pitch to be possible. Since when is that a requirement? What I have is the offenses in 8.05 are an Illegal Pitch in baseball (ball on batter), but if runners are on, and it's Jr/Sr/Big League, then I have a balk)
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It is in the March 03 issue of "Fairball" Page 3, bottom of the second column.
The rule
used to read:
An illegal pitch (A balk in Junior/Senior/Big League baseball when a runner or runners are on base) is when -
It was corrected to read:
An illegal pitch (A balk in Junior/Senior/Big League baseball) when a runner or runners are on base is when -
The "old" way had the "runners on base" as part of the Jr/Sr/Big parenthetical phrase. The new way placed it in the body of the rule.