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Old Thu Jul 14, 2005, 03:21pm
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Yep,

Correct, it is a balk.

The movement of lifting the leg is one move, the movement to first base is a second move.

Two individual moves equal a balk. The second move is passing home plate: if there is no pitch it is determined to be the second movement.

See Evans.

BTW, it is perfectly legal to throw to first base without stepping off. To do this the pitcher would HAVE to lift the front foot. The issue is that simply raising the front foot and the next movement going to first base is one thing . . . raising the knee puts us in a different situation.

T

[Edited by Tim C on Jul 14th, 2005 at 04:24 PM]
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