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Old Wed Aug 22, 2007, 01:29pm
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by blueump01
Rich, thank you.

Anyhow, any idea why 8.01d hasn't been corrected?

"If the pitcher makes an illegal pitch wiith the bases unoccupoed, it shall be called a ball unless the batter reaches first base..."
Because it's referring to the real illegal pitches - not in contact and quick.

That's one of the reasons I said:

Most folks don't really understands why LL chose to alter the nomenclature instead of just keeping "balk" and listing different penalties.

The nomenclature change just confuses everything.
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