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Originally Posted by mbyron
...And it is an illegal act by the pitcher, namely pitching before all fielders are in their prescribed locations...
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No, it isn't. It's when F1 is charged with a balk even though he hasn't committed one.
The term is misunderstood because so many people continually present it as having to do with F2 being outside the catcher's box, resulting in F1 committing a balk.
8.05(l) does not describe the catcher's balk; 7.07 does.
If people would comprehend that it's limited to F1 being charged with a balk due to F2's CI when R3 is advancing to the plate, when F1 has not, in fact, committed a balk, the term would not be so widely misrepresented.
dash_riprock understands.