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| OfficialEye
June 6, 2013
11:10:12 AM
Entry #: 4063637
| The above rule is last years version.... here is the correct one!
If there is a runner, or runners, it is a balk when—
(a) The pitcher, while touching his plate, makes any motion naturally associated with
his pitch and fails to make such delivery
Rule 8.05(a) Comment: If a lefthanded or righthanded pitcher swings his free foot past the
back edge of the pitcher’s rubber, he is required to pitch to the batter except to throw to second base on
a pick-off play.
(b) The pitcher, while touching his plate, feints a throw to first or third
base and fails to
complete the throw
(c) The pitcher, while touching his plate, fails to step directly toward a base before
throwing to that base
Rule 8.05(c) Comment: Requires the pitcher, while touching his plate, to step directly
toward a base before throwing to that base. If a pitcher turns or spins off of his free foot without actu-
ally stepping or if he turns his body and throws before stepping, it is a balk.
A pitcher is to step directly toward a base before throwing to that base and is required to throw
(except to second base) because he steps. It is a balk if, with runners on first and third, the pitcher
steps toward third and does not throw, merely to bluff the runner back to third then seeing the runner
on first start for second, turn and step toward and throw to first base. It is legal for a pitcher to feint a
throw to second base.
(d) The pitcher, while touching his plate, throws, or feints a throw to an unoccupied
base, except for the purpose of making a play
(e) The pitcher makes an illegal pitch
Rule 8.05(e) Comment: A quick pitch is an illegal pitch. Umpires will judge a quick pitch as
one delivered before the batter is reasonably set in the batter’s box. With runners on base the penalty is
a balk with no runners on base, it is a ball. The quick pitch is dangerous and should not be permitted.
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