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Old Fri Jul 17, 2009, 02:53pm
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Can a right handed pitcher put his left foot in rubber as to get an advantage to a pickoff at second base?
A RH pitcher taking the mound with his feet in the position of a LH pitcher (left foot on rubber, right foot in front of the rubber toward home) is illegal and a balk specifically in FED.

I'd rule the same way in OBR.
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Old Fri Jul 17, 2009, 03:00pm
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A RH pitcher taking the mound with his feet in the position of a LH pitcher (left foot on rubber, right foot in front of the rubber toward home) is illegal and a balk specifically in FED.

I'd rule the same way in OBR.
If this is what you are doing, trying to deceive the runner into thinking the pitcher is LH, then that is a balk. Cannot do anything naturally associated with the pitch while on the mound and not in contact with the rubber. That is what I would rule as well. Balk.
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Old Fri Jul 17, 2009, 03:02pm
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I don't think so. It sounds to me like the pitcher is just beginning to address the rubber when he decided to pickoff the runner.

HTBT but I don't think it should have been a balk. Maybe the pitcher just accidentally put his foot too close.
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