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Originally Posted by tomahawk kid
Instead of stepping towards the base, he basically stepped towards the base line - between home and the bag.
My understanding (and I'm not a balk rule expert), is that constitutes a balk.
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Why would that be a balk? If he's closer to the base than he was before the throw he's going 'toward' it. Maybe it's supposed to be 'directly toward', but I can't remember ever seeing it called that way if so. Either way the umpire didn't feel in his judgment there was intent to deceive the runner which is the spirit of it anyway.