Thread: Is this a Balk?
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Old Wed Apr 23, 2008, 09:04am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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1) Fix it, but it's not a balk (under OBR).

2) If it's all part of "getting comfortable on the rubber", then it's nothing. If it happens after F1 is on the rubber "for a while", then it's a balk.

3) The balk is a rule to protect the runners. The batter has nothing to do with this.
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