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Baseball

True Dough

(24,040 posts) Sun Jun 25, 2023, 09:13 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

(62,753 posts)

1. Bottom 8, so technically didn't "win" the game...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Jun 25, 2023, 10:12 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

(9,234 posts)

2. It's a balk.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Jun 25, 2023, 10:15 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

(9,234 posts)

3. It's a balk.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Jun 25, 2023, 10:15 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.

we can do it

(12,936 posts)

4. Waaaaa Ryne...Cheater team, no sympathy.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Jun 25, 2023, 10:51 AM

Jun 2023

Mr.Bill

(24,906 posts)

5. Football games are won or lost often

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Jun 26, 2023, 04:08 PM

Jun 2023

because of referee calls.

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