Boy, your spit is terribly, terribly incorrect. Forbes:
Boy, your spit is terribly, terribly incorrect. Forbes:
It was cool. But I saw better. My dad took me to a Pirates-Phillies double header in 1978. In the first game they were tied in the bottom of the 9th when Pirates catcher Ed Ott hit a double and went to third on an error and then scored on another error when the ball was thrown in the stands. Then game 2 Steve Carlton…
Because the balk rule doesn’t have a mens rea element. What matters is whether a move could cause the runner to be deceived, not whether that was the pitcher’s intent.