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Originally Posted by mbyron
Warn the coach that he may not yell at the opposing players. If you wish, you can add that you'd be happy to discuss balk calls/non-calls with him privately.
If a coach yelled something that caused a balk (unlike your sitch), I would not enforce the balk.
If he does it again, restrict him to the dugout. If he does it a third time, buh-bye.
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I do see your point here. If he's in the middle of a legal 3-1 move, the coach hasn't caused a balk since there is no balk.
However, the coach still needs to go or needs to understand that if this happens again, he's getting the hook.
I killed a balk the other day cause some moron next to the dugout screamed out "That's a balk" and caused the pitcher to stop. For a split second, I thought it came from the dugout, but I quickly realized that wasn't possible. Just CS/FP to not allow something like this to happen, IMO.