Legally putting ball in play, dead ball violations

[johnSandlin]

I agree with the other responses as well. "Dead Ball" or "Time" and any type of killing the play language that use in your games means exactly what you say.

In all levels of baseball, when time has been called or the ball is dead, play has stopped nothing else can happen until the umpire puts the ball back in play.

I strongly to all umpires to not try calling a balk when the ball is dead. Early in my umpiring career, I thought the same thing the original poster did, and I made balk before when the ball was dead.

I thought the gates of H*** were going to open up and swallow me right there on the spot when I saw the pitcher's coach get upset with me about the call I made.

Not being a smarty pants about this topic because we are all here to learn and get better as officials. In closing, nothing can happen when time has been granted or the ball has been delcared dead by an umpire.