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    Illegal pitch question

    So our batter is in the box and calls time and steps out. The pitcher goes through her motion but does not release the ball. What is the ruling on this? This was an ISA tournament.
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    Help with pause in the arm circle

    My daughter has been pitching for 3 years and has been known for her control. Last night she is all over the place. She was nowhere even near me let alone the strike zone. Over my head, in the ground. I had her go back to the K drill she did much better, but when she went back to the rubber...
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    Help from pitchers parents

    My daughter has decided on doing her science project on pitching. She would like to compare the following. speed with 11" and 12" ball. If any of you have a radar gun and would like to clock 5 pitches of each and post either here or send me a message of the average speed and ball size. If you...
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    Question on Playing down

    Can a girl who is eligible for the lower age bracket, but has been playing up for 7 months come back down to her age group? Will there be prostests in tournaments?
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    # of pitches

    I am new to this so please try not to slam me too much. My daughter is a 10u pitcher. She is very good at locating her spots with the fastball. She just changed pitching coaches and he changed the way she throws her change-up, so she is still struggling with location, speed and disguising it...
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    Pitching out of the pocket

    My friends daughter goes to a pitching coach that teaches out of the pocket follow through. To me this seems like it would be very hard on the elbow. He says that it won't hurt them because they won't be pitching many fastballs after 12 and it hides what they are pitching much better. Thoughts???
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    Question

    Here is the scenario. Our team cancelled out of a tournament this weekend because we had several girls hurt. We would have only needed to pick up 1 player to play. The coach calls practice for today at 3. 5 girls and one coach show up. The 2 of the other coaches had their daughters pickup...
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    Question about bat size

    Is a 21oz 31" bat too big for an average size 9year old? I am thinking about buying the purple/white Easton stealth
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    I need some advice from the experts.

    My daughter is currently on a travel team. She is 1 of 3 pitchers and gets some time on the mound. We found a new travel team with a wonderful coaching staff that we both love and she has a friend on the team that we could car pool with. The new team is a year older and moving up to the next...
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    question about a 9 year new pitcher

    My daughter has been learning to pitch for about 6 weeks now. She has had one lesson from a paid instructer and gone to one clinic that had 30mins with a ptiching instructor at the end. The guy that is working with her now is an umpire in the slow pitch league I play in and has had several...

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