3rd to 1st Move Becomes a Balk - The Official Forum

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Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:21am

egj13

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Originally Posted by maven

As others have already pointed out, this account of the motivation for the change is incorrect. MLB doesn't care how you call your games or how anyone else might use their rules.

My account for the motivation of the rule change came thusly...sitting at a dinner with the father of a MLB umpire last summer he brought up to me that MLB umpires had been informed that this rule would be eliminated because...wait for it...inconsistency in application.

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