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Old Sat Jun 06, 2015, 01:23pm
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by umpjim View Post
8.05 calls it an illegal pitch for majors/minors with runners on for any "balk" violation. It further calls (e) and (g), the true IPs, a ball without runners for majors/minors.
It is confusing and was a change in the wording a year or two or three ago. Before that we did not call "balks" in majors/minors other than the true IPs.
You should have been calling them all along. The wording change was just to clarify that a "true" illegal pitch was just (e ) and (g ).
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