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Old Mon Jul 09, 2012, 03:32pm
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Originally Posted by teccan9nja View Post
All of it looks like a balk to me. It looks like a distraction to me and like it would be to the batter.
Neither of these statements are in the rulebook. There a things a pitcher CAN'T do, and things a pitcher MUST do. If you are going to call a balk, you must be able to say to yourself... "The pitcher must do XXX, and he didn't" or "The pitcher is not allowed to do YYY, and he did."

"Looks like a balk" is not a balk.

"Looks like a distraction to me" is not a balk.
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