But, seriously, what is a balk, anyway? Baseball has a fair amount of rules that are open to subjectivity, but none more famous than a balk. While there are letter-of-the-law rules regarding a balk, ...

Pitchers aren’t the only players who can be called for balks, evidently, and the San Francisco Giants found this out the hard way. I, a man paid to write about baseball, did not know this either! So I ...

Tigers-Indians, bottom of the 13th. Bases loaded. And the pit- wait, there’s not going to be a pitch, because Al Albuquerque committed a balk before throwing a ...

"How is that a balk?" That certainly appeared to be what Astros reliever Ryne Stanek — and likely others watching at home — were wondering as second-base umpire Junior Valentine signaled for the ...

A former soccer player who now lives and works in Barcelona, Paul has been living in Spain since 2011. Ten years later in 2021 is when he joined the Diario AS family and he's been churning out ...

There are a lot of ways to lose a baseball game, but the Houston Astros managed to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Saturday night in one of the most annoying ways possible: a balk. Let's set ...

A bizarre balk rule had the Guardians completely exasperated Wednesday night. Cleveland starter Ben Lively and manager Stephen Vogt could not believe the balk call against Lively that forced in a run ...

Mayhem broke loose in the bottom of the eighth inning on Saturday night in the showdown between the Astros and Dodgers. With the game tied at 7–7, Houston reliever Ryne Stanek was in the middle of a ...

The Houston Astros scored the winning run against the Texas Rangers on Sunday when manager A.J. Hinch successfully argued that the Rangers' Keone Kela had balked with a runner on third, even though ...