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Visiting team so they would have had a chance to tie it up in bottom half or win it. "Balk off Win' is a good line though We were just talking and if the defensive coach yells time out after the wind up when a player is stealing a base, my guess is the umpires would afford the runner the stolen base. There has to be some consequence for a defensive coach disrupting the flow of the game by calling a late timeout. I do believe in this case, however, that the coach was not trying to disrupt the game or gain an advantage, and certainly not trying to cause a balk for his own pitcher, he just used poor judgement on the timing of his request for a timeout and then all hell broke loose trying to sort it out.

There was no punishment for the coach. It was the Mansfield vs Walpole game yesterday in MA. We asked for a protest when the decision is made but we don't expect any changes and we will all move on. Just was curious as I could not find this addressed in any rulebook and it seems like it could happen on occasion and should be included in the Federation rulebook. In basketball, a time out without possession is ignored and you play on and a timeout attempt with no timeouts left leads to a technical. In this case, no balk AND no penalty for the coach just doesn't seem right in such a crucial situation. You don't want to win on an RBI by a balk but rules are rules, and unfortunately we left a ton of base runners on base in extra runnings and that ultimately did us in. Thanks for all the input, just really wanted to know if there was an existing rule that applied to this situation as we could not find anything related to the defensive coach causing the balk. It was a great high school baseball game and it's too bad it's being overshadowed by this one incident.

Varsity High school Baseball in State Quarterfinal Game

Coach on defense, was attempting to call late timeout after his own pitcher started his throwing motion

In extra innings, we had runners on 2nd and 3rd. Opposing pitcher starts his wind up and then opposing coach leaves dugout attempting to get a timeout, but after the pitcher's throwing motion had started. All 3 umpires call a balk, then 40 minute conference with calls to other umpires by cell phone. Umps change original call and do not issue a balk so runner does not score. We end up not scoring and losing in 12th inning. Can the umpires overrule a clear balk that was caused by their own coach calling a timeout after the windup has started?