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Old Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:55am
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Balk?
Saw this play while browsing the internet. Not sure it's a high school game or not, or whether that matters for the balk rule.

Baseball is a game of inches, and hidden balls : theCHIVE

I forget...is this a balk?
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Old Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:45am
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Saw this play while browsing the internet. Not sure it's a high school game or not, or whether that matters for the balk rule.

Baseball is a game of inches, and hidden balls : theCHIVE

I forget...is this a balk?
Why would it be a balk?
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Old Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:54am
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Saw this play while browsing the internet. Not sure it's a high school game or not, or whether that matters for the balk rule.

Baseball is a game of inches, and hidden balls : theCHIVE

I forget...is this a balk?
That isn't the "hidden ball trick" (I realize you didn't say that), and it's not a balk at any level. It's (a version of) the "Miami play." FED has a case play on it, I think.
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Old Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:54am
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Like just about everything these days... horrible title for the video.

Not hidden ball... not a balk. Simply a fake throw and great (legal) deception by everyone.
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Old Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:19pm
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That isn't the "hidden ball trick" (I realize you didn't say that), and it's not a balk at any level. It's (a version of) the "Miami play." FED has a case play on it, I think.
Looks like the definition of the "Miami play".
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