re: 3rd to 1st now a balk?

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i dont think you can make this rule chance without also outlawing an inside move to 2b without a throw




These aren't even close to being the same thing.

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They are exactly the same thing. A pitcher is lifting his leg as if to pitch, only to step toward a base where he can fake a throw or attempt a throw to that base.

How is that not the same?