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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
It's there - by effect.
Read the part about if the batter and runners advance one base safely the balk is ignored. The only way that could happen is if the ball were still live.
In HS rules the ball is immediately dead, but USSSA doesn't use HS rules.
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Just emphasizing what Rich said about when to ignore the balk. Not sure how it is in the rest of U-trip country, but around here we hear too often this situation being "coach's choice" whether to enforce the balk or not. I hear that from both coach's and uninformed umpires.