Illegal pitching, acceptable !?!

Found comment interesting you saying "typical mechanics" in men's game.

I'd like to see a clip of Mike White in 1984. This Thread does show big difference in Can-Am and NZ. Wondering if Kevin Herlihy pitched the same as MW.... and if so, is that considered NewZealand's Men Pitching... DD picked up the difference in Kevin & her in one glance :{)) Lookz Like it would be the safest

I think, that pitcher's that are going to get to play in an ISF event are given more rope on IP's .... JMHO

Rocketech1 said:

I'm sure she would do just fine with practice. She likely got into a bad habit of pitching that way when she was younger and very difficult to make changes to the motion once its been ingrained for 10 years + of pitching that way.

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The fact that she pitches "legally" once she's caught pitching "illegally" - to me - means she knows exactly what she's doing and it has nothing to do with any 10 year old ingrained bad habits. She knows pitching legally means she's not as effective.

Obviously we could have a much longer conversation on the umpires that aren't doing their jobs when it comes to calling obvious illegal pitches.

If any college program knows a pitcher is illegal, recruits and signs them, and then does nothing to help them pitch legally except "try not to get caught too many times", that a sad reflection on the coaching staff...just MHO...

Hillhouse said:

KCPRK, I'm glad they looked at the runners. Question: Was there 3 umps or 2? You need 3 if you're going to cover it all. Without multiple umpires, it's REALLY hard to see some things without all 3. Such as: why do hitters kick out the batter's box? Slappers do the front, power hitters do the back. It's to gain an advantage. It's hard to see THAT with a runner on base, watching for IP's, and plate ump looking for runner leaving early.

Bill

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It was with 2. I do agree with all you stated above.