You have to actually step toward the bag and be within a 45 degree angle. You saying he does that? I have no idea how that is not a balk. Its pretty textbook.

Heyward actually did something positive

From Reddit. Pretty good explanation :

Urias balk

No one truly knows what a balk is.


Re: Urias balk

Balk Rules

You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
Do not do a balk please.

And there it is. Cubs needed that.

Ugh, f4ggot cubs

The Cubs are back

**** ya Russel. Hopefully that gets him going.

No, he's saying you're right and I agree as well. That's a balk when he does it most of the time, IMO.

It's actually insane how that hasn't been called once. His foot probably lands in the same spot as Bumgarner when he's throwing to the plate.

Yea, it's no where near legal IMO. I guess the league set precedence by not calling him early for it. Now no ump is going to call it a balk.

Tommy Lasorda can suck it.

Addison Russel looks like a different species. Alien, perhaps.

Has John Lackey ever closed his mouth?

But did he make a football move or take 3 steps and keep the ball from moving as he was going to the ground?

He tripped on his shoelace and gave himself up.