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True Dough

(19,959 posts)
Sun Jun 25, 2023, 08:13 AM Jun 2023

If you balk the balk...

It is a cruddy way to lose a ball game, but the umps shouldn't be picking and choosing occasions to enforce the rules. Agreed?

Astros' pitcher Ryne Stanek doesn't seem to see it that way:

Stanek said he watched the replay. He had never before been called for a balk.

"The move is beyond minor," he said. "I think that's a pretty drastic call to make considering that play right there the umpire decided the game."


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37911560/astros-fall-dodgers-balk-call


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If you balk the balk... (Original Post) True Dough Jun 2023 OP
Bottom 8, so technically didn't "win" the game... Wounded Bear Jun 2023 #1
It's a balk. bottomofthehill Jun 2023 #2
It's a balk. bottomofthehill Jun 2023 #3
Waaaaa Ryne...Cheater team, no sympathy. we can do it Jun 2023 #4
Football games are won or lost often Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #5

Wounded Bear

(60,512 posts)
1. Bottom 8, so technically didn't "win" the game...
Sun Jun 25, 2023, 09:12 AM
Jun 2023

The vid doesn't show prior to the called offense, but apparently Stanek stepped off the rubber, then stepped back on the rubber, then back off again. I don't think you can do that by the new rules.

bottomofthehill

(8,771 posts)
2. It's a balk.
Sun Jun 25, 2023, 09:15 AM
Jun 2023

It would have been a tougher call in the 9th but it is a balk whatever inning you are in. You step on and set and then step off, it’s a balk

bottomofthehill

(8,771 posts)
3. It's a balk.
Sun Jun 25, 2023, 09:15 AM
Jun 2023

It would have been a tougher call in the 9th but it is a balk whatever inning you are in. You step on and set and then step off, it’s a balk.

Now if we ban get the NBA refs to start to call the carry.

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