Thread: 39 ways to balk
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Old Mon Jun 30, 2003, 03:14pm
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"If the 1B or 3B player is stradling the base with a foot clearly in foul area, and the pitch is delivered and caught, what is the call?"

If someone makes a big deal of this, this is the call

"Time, Son please move both feet (depending on the level of game OBR,NCAA or FED) or one foot into fair territory" If the player does not comply than further action may be requried. It is NEVER NEVER a balk. Too many officials get this confused with the penalty for a catchers balk which is on the same page and just below the wording about players being in fair territory.

There are variations about this in Fed and NCAA, however this is probably the best way to handle it.
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