[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by bas2456

Saw this play while browsing the internet. Not sure it's a high school game or not, or whether that matters for the balk rule.

Baseball is a game of inches, and hidden balls : theCHIVE

I forget...is this a balk?

That isn't the "hidden ball trick" (I realize you didn't say that), and it's not a balk at any level. It's (a version of) the "Miami play." FED has a case play on it, I think.