quote:Originally posted by isaacvanwart:
Low is right. What you describe is 100% balk all the way. With a runner on only first base, if the front foot moves (don't use the lefty argument with a right-handed pitcher; whole different set of rules apply because they are lefties) at all before back foot moves, the pitcher has committed to throw home. Period.
First, I can't find a different set of rules in my copies of the OBR, FED rulebook or NCAA rulebook for RHPs and LHPs.
Second, your statement that "if the front foot moves at all before the back foot move, the pitcher has committed to throw home" is incorrect.
From the rubber, a pitcher may deliver a pitch, step and throw to a base, or disengage.