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WOW... and these guys get 300k a year. Nobody mechanically called the balk. The moment RF caught the ball time should have been called. R1 to second and batter back to bat. Hell, Johnson is a AAA fill-in. He should atleast know the rule himself? BTW, The MLB guys DO NOT have to take a rules test each year. If I screwed this up in a college game, my boss would have my ***.
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It looks to me that they got it right. If you look at the video, at least to me, it seems like Jim Joyce is saying it's not a balk, it's an illegal pitch. It looks like he says it several times in the video. Therefore, with a 3-2 count, the batter is properly awarded a ball for the penalty, in this case also 1B, because of the count, with R1 being sent to 2B.
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yeah...I'm not saying they're never wrong because even they will admit that they're wrong sometimes...heck we're human. i wonder how they ruled this to put the B/R on 1B. must have something to do with ball 4 as stated in an above post.
an illegal pitch w/ runners on is an illegal pitch...but is there something in the interps about it being a 3-2 count and not giving the defense a chance to strike the batter out on a 3-2 count?
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Sometimes I wonder how 4 guys can get any of the rule interps wrong at that level...it may have something to do w/ Joyce's experience. Is he the crew chief? Maybe the other guys didn't step in since they weren't asked...
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Note that the comment specifically states that an illegal pitch with runners on is penalized as a balk.
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I know the rule...I guess I was playing along trying to figure out how they could've ruled the way that they did. Thanks for posting it though.
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Interesting point...the penalty for illegal pitch can be a balk...but you can't have both balk AND illegal pitch penalties on the same play?
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correct. we catch mlb umpires too often messing up rules... which is odd
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