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Old Thu May 26, 2016, 08:11am
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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner View Post
I certainly understand Scrounge's hesitancy in making a decision without seeing the play, but to me the telling aspect of this is the description: "moves hands like starting to go home". Since the first description listed under Balks is: The pitcher, while touching his plate, makes any motion naturally associated with his pitch and fails to make such delivery., I can't help but think this is a balk.
Sure... I get your point.

But he said that he "moves hands..." and "simultaneously steps off" ... so the moving hands does not occur "while touching the plate".
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