A balk is one of those things that you know it when you see it, sometimes. The balk called on Seattle Mariners star Bryan Woo ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros by an 8-7 final (box score) on Saturday night. The go-ahead run, and what proved to be the eventual winning run, scored in controversial fashion ...

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 21-inning college baseball game that took more than 24 hours to complete ended in controversial fashion. University of St.

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 ...

You've heard of an intentional walk but how about an intentional balk? Saturday's MLB Rivalry Weekend game between the Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers offered a clear reason why the phrase ...

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, ...

Less than a day later, as the Mariners prepared for the second game of their three-game series at Petco Park, they still weren’t sure that umpire Bill Miller’s balk call on Bryan Woo’s pickoff move in ...

If it walks like a balk, looks like a balk, and sure as hell moves like a balk, then it’s probably a balk. Unless you’re Matthew Boyd. The Cubs’ lefty has somehow tiptoed past every balk call this ...

The San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers’ series this weekend has been nothing short of dramatic, and the ending of Saturday’s game added to the theater. The Giants had the bases loaded in the ...

OK, so: This is going to get a little complicated. But that's seemingly the case when it comes to what is and isn't a balk in Major League Baseball. And we'll see if that becomes a factor in the 2022 ...