Pickoff Moves for Pitchers : Best Third Base Pickoff Move for Baseball Pitchers: Part 2

[baseballkidmw2]

@tycekoenig16 no it's not it's 45 degrees

[tycekoenig16]

Thats a Balk

[andyhasel1998]

thumbs up if it paused at 1:44

[dmiller8813]

that is a fat bock!! you have to step in a 90 degree angle. you made a mostion towards home!!

[jvanley6911]

@dmiller8813 This rule is rarely enforced. Besides, this is a "balk move" meaning, you are doing it knowing you may or may not actually get a balk called on you. This guy knows what hes doing. I PREACH to my kids to walk it off just like this guys teaching. Hes 100 percent correct, the opposing teams coach almost always calls balk first and if you walk it off this will ALMOST NEVER get called.

[mrfire50]

@dmiller8813 its a 45 degree... and it's not a bock

[thebandittransam]

Watch for tendencies your feet were close together when you came set. In other videos you rarely brought your feet closer together. Good instruction.

[CalShane1]

Thanks Mike, we just left little league and are now playing aau. Time for me to brush up on pickoff moves so I can teach the youngster. I have a vid of him here on youtube pitching in one of his LL games this year. If you have time take a look. Been a while since I sent you a vid of him. Have a great day.

[dawgdays78]

This is not a balk. His free foot steps more toward 3B than home.

It does not depend that his foot is moving toward home, it's where the step lands.

His advice about the step, and the umpire having P "dead to rights" is bogus. If that free foot does not land more toward 3B than home, it doesn't matter where the next step goes. It will make it harder for the umpire to see.

[redsoxfan4life04]

BALK he offered to the plate

[jeter2tino24]

I have a question for anyone here im confused on an aspect when you are set on the mound do you have to step behind the rubber while throwing to third or first even if you are making it clear where your throwing by your footing?

[cheezedudle]

@jeter2tino24 no. as long as your momentum is not carried to home and you are clearly throwing to third.

[millerliteisgud]

@cheezedudle actually the rule depends on whether or not you leading foot is pointed toward third or home, therefore as soon as u start to move forward u have to throw home or it's a balk

[summerrain222]

If you don't cross the 45 degree mark, in other words the angle halfway between towards 3rd and home (0 degrees is home and 90 degrees is 3rd, i.e. some angle higher than 45 degrees), then your motion is towards 3rd, not home.

[CarpeNoctemFilms]

there is no 45 degree rule summerrain. but it is still not a balk because his motion is towards third. although its not directly to third its still in that area. thats why he walks towards third after. to inforce that its a legal move.

[summerrain222]

Right, it's not a balk because his motion is towards third. And the reason that his motion is towards third rather than home is because angles higher than 45 degrees are more towards third than home. If he crossed that mark he'd be stepping towards home. While the 45 degree rule is not in the baseball rules, that's how it is enforced (i.e. how it's determined if the step is towards home or third).

[GrantMuse5]

that does look like a balk, cause his leg is going home then he throws to third

[SonPeeps23]

This is not a balk. His Move Is just tricky he did not move pas the 45 degree angle line.

[lilchip1260]

That is a balk, the pitchers movement went to home, therefore you can just stop and pick off, you must make your move toward third base to pickoff, if your movement is towards home you must throw home, you do NOT have to throw the ball while using this pickoff move. And if there is nobody on the base you are picking off to then that is also a balk

[funkycats34]

DO you know what the sport baseball is? No, cuz if you did you would know that under a 45 degree angle step home can be a legal pickoff.

[specalicious4]

do you have to throw third during this pick off move or can you just hold the ball??? cause i thought it was a balk if you dont throw the ball without stepping off the rubber

[A2000Hawk]

you do not have to throw the ball

[elp142]

No, that's good. That's no balk. You can cross up to a 45 degree line. This is a bad angle to use, it should be either seeing from home or seeing from third.

[clasicrock26]

It is a balk, that's why he tells you to walk toward third, the runner knows it's a balk, but all the ump sees is you walking toward third

[Lib3rateyourmind]

No it's not. He had his foot on the third base side of 45 degree angle. Read the rulebook.

[manutd107]

I always thought that as long as you don't cross that imaginary 45 degree line it's not a balk. Maybe that's why I'm not an ump.

[mathewwoodley]

i completely agree with u on that that whats id call aswell

[Centexan07]

The step is not at third base. That looks like a balk and that's how i would call it. Your initial move is toward home.