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piaa_ump5,000+ posts

agreed...I brought this up to my association meeting last night and after considering it for a few minutes and after some comical attempts by Umpires to demonstrate it, we all agreed that this is just a casual action and would not balk him for this...

There were some dissenting opinions that once he went into the glove and brought he ball out that he had started his motion and they would balk him for this...

"It is a balk if a Pitcher after bringing his hands together on the rubber or engaging the rubber with his hands together, separates them except in making a pitch or a throw"

But from the concensus.....we would not....

4/23/0910:07 AM

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