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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
Agreed, if the pitch is caught. If it's a wild pitch or passed ball, leave the ball live. If all the runners advance a base, ignore the balk for the runners, but acknowledge the balk for the batter (that is, "no pitch'")
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And don't forget, like I will admit doing last season, that a walk to the batter works as well. I was PU with R1 (OBR in effect); R1 takes off for 2B and F1 double clutches, then throws ball home (batter had a count of 3 balls and whatever). Both my partner and I yell "that's a balk!" as I forget to track the ball in and make a ball/strike call.
Partner points to R1 and moves him to 2B, everyone sets up for the next pitch when the OC comes out and asks me whether the "balk" pitch was a ball or not. Insert churning stomach feeling here. Fortunately, I remembered that the pitch wasn't close. We awarded batter first base and moved on, no harm done.