If you balk the balk...

[True Dough]

It is a cruddy way to lose a ball game, but the umps shouldn't be picking and choosing occasions to enforce the rules. Agreed?

Astros' pitcher Ryne Stanek doesn't seem to see it that way:

Stanek said he watched the replay. He had never before been called for a balk.

"The move is beyond minor," he said. "I think that's a pretty drastic call to make considering that play right there the umpire decided the game."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37911560/astros-fall-dodgers-balk-call

[Wounded Bear]

1. Bottom 8, so technically didn't "win" the game...

The vid doesn't show prior to the called offense, but apparently Stanek stepped off the rubber, then stepped back on the rubber, then back off again. I don't think you can do that by the new rules.

[bottomofthehill]

2. It's a balk.

It would have been a tougher call in the 9th but it is a balk whatever inning you are in. You step on and set and then step off, it’s a balk

[bottomofthehill]

3. It's a balk.

It would have been a tougher call in the 9th but it is a balk whatever inning you are in. You step on and set and then step off, it’s a balk.

Now if we ban get the NBA refs to start to call the carry.

[we can do it]

4. Waaaaa Ryne...Cheater team, no sympathy.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Football games are won or lost often

because of referee calls.