If you’re not up on the rules of baseball, what Astros pitcher Ryne Stanek did in the 8th inning was a balk. By every letter of the rule. Some people only are wildly trying to say that it wasn’t a balk, but anyone not associated with or rooting for the Astros knows it was fully a balk. And Dodgers manager Dave Roberts definitively agreed with second base umpire Junior Valentine after the game.
“It was a balk. He got it right. Obviously, in a game like that, don’t want that to be the deciding run in that situation, but they got the call right.