Reply to "LH Pick Move......."Feinting Home""

Jimmy031,000+ posts

quote:
Originally posted by Harv:
I would think that the front foot landing to the first base side of the 45 would be sufficient proof that he went "direct to the base" assuming he didn't fall on his keester.

That's why it's such a tricky balk and extremely unfair to the runner. He sees the move towards home and takes off and is dead.

You sound like the defensive coach. View it as the offensive coach.

No matter how you want to justify it, it is a balk. It is interpreted as such at all professional levels and the NCAA clinics. It is a major area of balk instruction at proschools. It is one of the most illegally deceptive moves in baseball.

5/6/118:58 PM

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