By my count he has balked at least 4 times, maybe 5. Depends on how many times he’s thrown over
This HPU has had a tight but consistent zone tonight.
T5:
Butera strikes out looking
He also is in no hurry to make a strike 3 motion.
- 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.
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T5:
Fletcher pops out F4 in shallow RF
I guess that went right over my head
T5:
Ohtani…0-2…strikes out swinging
3-1 Astros
Dammit, Yordan.
You have to get 2 strikes first.
I suspected it might for some here, it’s a copypasta from reddit, at least that’s where I first saw it.
B5:
Alvarez grounds out 3U
B5:
Gurriel lines out to RF on a sliding catch
Correa’s BA has dropped 61 points in 10 days? Good grief.
And back up 5 or 6.
B5:
Correa singles to RF
When you go one for a week and a half, that’ll happen
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B5:
Tucker…full up…walks, Correa to 2B
I guess I hadn’t noticed he’s been that bad
B5:
Straw…0-2…doubles to LF, Correa scores, Tucker to 3B
Another RBI for Straw!
2 outs 0-2 no less.