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DNSB · 09-01-2023, 11:31 PM

walk-off balk

Quite a while back, I called that one in a 13-14 year old baseball game when I was acting as base umpire. The game was tied up with runners on 1st and 3rd in the bottom of the 7th inning. The pitcher stepped towards first and faked a throw without releasing the ball. The kid on 3rd went home on the balk call and the game was over. The guy coaching the losing team was very upset. I was very unsympathetic since the only reason I was at the game was the coach basically attempted to bully the 15-16 year old kids we used as umpires at those games. His very inventive view of the baseball rules was another issue.

09-01-2023, 11:31 PM	#51284
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,324 Karma: 171313058 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	walk-off balk Quite a while back, I called that one in a 13-14 year old baseball game when I was acting as base umpire. The game was tied up with runners on 1st and 3rd in the bottom of the 7th inning. The pitcher stepped towards first and faked a throw without releasing the ball. The kid on 3rd went home on the balk call and the game was over. The guy coaching the losing team was very upset. I was very unsympathetic since the only reason I was at the game was the coach basically attempted to bully the 15-16 year old kids we used as umpires at those games. His very inventive view of the baseball rules was another issue. Last edited by DNSB; 09-01-2023 at 11:46 PM.