He wins the golf cart that ran over the state trooper yesterday

Baseball players are rarely full-scholarship.

Yes and yes - my DIII coach (the lowest stakes you can imagine) was a similarly high-strung screaming little martinet, as was the football coach, women's tennis coach, etc etc

Is this supposed to be abnormal? I played college ball and this was an everyday occurrence and I kind of assumed it went on everywhere.

On point. You can fake to 2nd on an inside move and, as previously stated, once off the rubber the pitcher is a fielder which would allow him to hold on to a ball as well. It looks to me like a botched jump move, but not one I would expect to be called at most levels of play in real-time. Bottom line, runner should…

It is 100% legal to feign to second while engaged in all rule sets, providing the pitcher doesn't balk in some other way. The pitcher does not have to step off to feign like he does to 1st base and now 3rd in the MLB. Any umpire above little league should be able to tell you that.

not a balk. period. end of story..... lame little bush league hidden ball trick play.... :: yawn ::

there's nothing about this trick play by design being a balk...it just comes down to his pickoff move. It's borderline, but probably wouldn't get called a balk in that important of a game.

that's not true either. Pitchers quite often lift their leg, turn to second and never throw the ball. Just to keep the runner honest. Even when there is no one covering. And it's totally legal.

Listen, stop the whining about how this is cheating. All that happened here was the pitcher tried to throw the ball but it stuck to his fingers because of all the pine tar he uses

The pitcher had the ball the whole time

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So you don't think he has the ability to learn how to write?