Quote:
Originally posted by bluezebra
"R3 breaks for home as pitcher starts wind-up. As the pitch comes in, catcher rises out of stance to catch pitch, which was a pitch-out, (so it looks as if either the pitcher recognized it and then threw outside, or the defense thought it might be coming, so they pitched out).
As the catcher reaches over the left-handed batters box to receive the pitch, batter makes half-hearted attempt to bunt."
1..This is NOT a balk since F2 did NOT leave catcher's box before release of pitch.
...[snip]...
Bob
|
Bob, the original poster already stated in his post that he KNEW his play was NOT a balk, but not for the reasons you advanced. You should look at OBR 7.07 to see the OTHER sort of so-called CATCHER'S BALK. The poster was actually asking whether anyone had actually called THAT type of catcher's balk.
Cheers