Thread: Pitch or throw?
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Old Thu Jun 02, 2011, 07:42am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by devdem View Post
If the runner never actually broke for home, wouldn't this just be a balk.
The pitcher made a pitching motion while not on the rubber.
If that's what the umpire has, then it's a balk. The "assumption" in the OP is that the throwing motion was sufficiently different from the pitching motion.
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