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Old Fri Jul 18, 2008, 12:42pm
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eureka25,

The term "disengage" has a very specific meaning within the context of the rules of baseball - namely, that the pitcher "lands" his pivot foot behind the rubber. If he does THAT, yeah, I got a balk w. runners on base.

If, on the other hand, you mean his pivot foot slightly & briefly lost contact with the rubber as it went from "toes home" to "toes toward 3B" (assuming a RHP), then I got "nothin' ".

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