Did anyone else really hate that bock call?
I thought it was a dickhead call. I also thought the check swing that the first base ump called a strike on us was a dickhead call.
I'm sitting on the 1st base side tomorrow just in case the same guy is there again.
Replay showed it to be a balk
I will say this, I am very unclear as to how college calls their balks. I thought once you were in your wind up committed to home it was all or nothing. I thought that included lifting the leg for the wind up.
Some one with HBBIQ please give a detailed analysis for all of us lbbiq peoples. please.
REFERENCE: 2008 NCAA Baseball Rules & Interpretations
From this position, any natural movement associated with the delivery
of the ball to the batter commits the pitcher to pitch without interruption or
alteration. The pitcher shall not raise either foot from the ground, except that
in the actual delivery of the ball to the batter, the pitcher may take one step
backward or sideward and one step forward with the free foot.
PENALTY—Warning on first offense. Illegal pitch shall be called on
subsequent offenses.
(1) A pitcher may assume the wind-up position with:
(a) hands together
in front of the body,
(b) hands apart (both arms or the throwing arm
at the pitcher’s side) and then go directly into the delivery to the
plate,
(c) hands apart and then bring the hands together and come to
a stop to adjust the grip on the ball before beginning the delivery to
the plate.
From these positions the pitcher may:
(a) Deliver the ball to the batter;
(b) Step and throw to a base in an attempt to pick off a runner; or
(c) Disengage from the pitching rubber by stepping back off the
rubber and placing the the pivot foot on the ground behind the
rubber before separating the hands or stepping back with the free
foot.
(2) With a runner on base, the pitcher shall pitch to the batter immediately
after making any motion with any part of the body such as the pitcher
habitually uses during the delivery.
(3) With a runner on base, the pitcher may disengage from the rubber as
long as no natural pitching motion with the body, legs or free foot has
been started.
(4) With a runner on base, the pitcher may throw to that base without
first disengaging the pivot foot from the rubber as long as no natural
pitching motion has been started.
(5) The pitcher cannot move from the wind-up position to the set
position without disengaging the pivot foot from the rubber.
(6) The pitcher must step directly and gain ground toward a base in an
attempt to pick off a runner. “Directly” is interpreted to mean within
a 45-degree angle measuring from the pivot foot toward the base the
pitcher is throwing to or feinting a throw.(7) A pitcher, when stepping off the rubber, shall not drop the heel of the
free foot before disengaging the pivot foot from the rubber.
He was well past 45 degrees and that's why that balk was called.
