Balk from a Set or Stretch position

[Jerry]

RBN3:
Let me ask you, if someone tells you, "Make sure to turn off the stove when you leave the house.", when would you turn off the stove?

In your question, the dropping of the hands to the side is one of several requirements that must be met "when" a pitcher disengages the rubber, not "immediately after" a pitcher desengages the rubber. As I posted earlier, by official interpretation, a pitcher has all the way up to when he reengages the rubber in prepration for coming to a Set or Windup. It has nothing to do with the process of making or faking a throw anywhere.

Jerry