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Related: About this forumIf 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:
"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
Wounded Bear
(60,512 posts)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)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, its a balk
bottomofthehill
(8,771 posts)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, its a balk.
Now if we ban get the NBA refs to start to call the carry.
we can do it
(12,732 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,739 posts)because of referee calls.