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Old Sat Aug 18, 2012, 06:06am
tcarilli tcarilli is offline
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Originally Posted by BigUmp56 View Post
I had a balk on the play as well. Possibly for two reasons.

One - Looked like the free foot crossed the back plane of the rubber. (maybe)

Two - Also looked like he may have started to rotate toward home rather than step directly toward third. (or more to home than third).

Tim.
No way on either.

1. whole foot has to cross whole rubber, not even close. (see below and thanks to mbyron for updating me on this one). I still don't see him breaking the back edge here.

2. everything went towards third.

No way this is a balk.
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Last edited by tcarilli; Sat Aug 18, 2012 at 09:10am. Reason: eating crow! :-)
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