Legal pick off for the lefties as well?

[jdmara]

I'm just on the edge of my seat reviewing some of the PBUC Umpire Manual and came across something that made me think a little bit.

6.5.(i) 'Special Balk Regulations' states:

It is legal for a right-handed pitcher to begin a pick-off move to first base by first moving his pivot foot in the direction of third base provided that he makes a legal step toward first base with his non-pivot foot before throwing there and provided that the move is continuous and without interruption...

After reading that I started to think (I know it's scary), would the same move my a left-handed pitcher to third base be a balk then? As I read it, it would be a balk if a lefty the mirror-image move to third. Would you all agree?

-Josh