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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by DoubleM[/i] [br]We recently had the following scenario. The pitcher toed the rubber with no one on base. He moved forward to throw the pitch and dropped the ball as his arm came forward. The umpire called no pitch. Several "helpers" said it's a ball. The umpire thought that they were saying it's a balk. The Umpire said you cannot balk with no one on base. I have read in other posts that MLB, High School, and Tournament rules sometimes differ, but I have seen this called a ball in the MLB. Would love to hear any explanation. Thanks. [/quote]