This discussion occurred on the newsgroup alt.sport.officiating . Runner on second with 2 out. Pitcher balks on pitch but batter hits ball high to center. Everyone has frozen because of balk call. R2 rounds third and scores.
Ball falls in behind center fielder.
Batter takes off and rounds first and slides into second to be tagged out. Get this wrong and u will have rope burns around your neck for rest of season. If the home plate Umpire calls the balk, throws his hands in the air and walks away from the plate then the ball is dead and runner goes to 3rd. If your going by the way the rule is written then the Umpire should say balk and allow the play to continue, the run scores, runner out at 2nd for 3rd out. To answer your question, as the previous poster noted, if you've got your hands up then you've got a dead ball, runners get one base, batter gets nothing, and you might have some explaining to do if you got those hands up too quickly.