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Related: About this forumI have watched baseball for 60 years and have never seen this.
Last edited Wed Sep 28, 2022, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34680821/miami-marlins-richard-bleier-ties-mlb-record-3-balks-inning-gets-tossed-vs-mets3 Balks brings runner around to score from first.
What the balk!!
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I have watched baseball for 60 years and have never seen this. (Original Post)
kairos12
Sep 2022
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Diamond_Dog
(34,414 posts)1. Unbelievable!
kairos12
(13,221 posts)2. I laugh because my son was a left-handed pitcher who had
a great move to first that was so good neither the umpire or the 1st baseman would ever pay attention. Or a balk always got called.
Runner advanced.
Zambero
(9,673 posts)3. Anything to get into the record books
Would that three-part escapade be considered an "earned run"?
kairos12
(13,221 posts)4. I would rip out the page from my scorers book and frame it.
WestMichRad
(1,733 posts)5. That's a good question!
I did some digging and couldnt find a direct answer, but did find:
A balk (in record keeping for the game) is treated the same way as a (successful) stolen base; and
In the box score for last nights Mets-Marlins game, all the runs were earned runs.
So apparently, a balk that allows a run to score is an earned run.
Cool beans!