NFHS balk rule revisted

[bossman72]

Originally Posted by PeteBooth

You did not specify what position F1 was in. The wind-up or set.

In OBR from the wind-up F1 can pick-off a runner WITHOUT disengaging OBR 8.01(2)

In FED, F1 cannot pick-off a runner from the wind-up WITHOUT disengaging.

If your instructor was talking about F1 in the set position then he is wrong. If F1 was in the Wind-up position then he is correct.

Pete Booth

Good catch pete! One of the tricky differences between OBR and FED

Once he mentioned NFHS instructor with a runner on first, we all made the assumption that the pitcher was pitching from the set position. Fifty lashes with a wet noodle for not asking that question!!! Pete gets the grand prize and we get the booby prize.

[tcarilli]

Originally Posted by BigGuy

Once he mentioned NFHS instructor with a runner on first, we all made the assumption that the pitcher was pitching from the set position. Fifty lashes with a wet noodle for not asking that question!!! Pete gets the grand prize and we get the booby prize.

Don't be hasty with the noodle. He did write "right-handed pitcher," not just pitcher, so by implication a left-handed pitcher would not have to disengage to throw to first...if the "handedness" of the pitcher is important, as it appears to be, then it would be safe to conclude he was speaking about the set position. If he was not...then the "instructor" has more problems than we, or anyone, can deal with!