Illegal pitch?

[NVfishing]

Watched a game today. Pitcher presents with ball and glove at chest level. Takes ball out rocks it back to start pitch and brings it back half way up the circle then rocks back and then all the way around. This is an illegal pitch right? Umpire didn't call it?

 

[FPMark]

Once the hands seperate,you can swing the arm backwards, but once it starts forward, you cannot stop or reverse direction of the ball. From your description, it would be illegal.

I was watching a local college showcase tournament this weekend. One pitcher never once put her hands together before the pitch, but the umps never called an illegal pitch. Don't know if they just didn't notice (doubtful) or just didn't care to call it. Seemed strange.

 

[starsnuffer]

Ball and glove have to be separated when the pitcher takes the rubber, then the hands come together. Other then that everything seems fine.

-W

 

[abbygale]

Are you sure it's ball and glove must be separate and not just "hands" ?

 

[dadof7]

Are you sure it's ball and glove must be separate and not just "hands" ?

Most rule sets indicate that the hands must be separated. The ball can be in the hand or the glove.

 

[starsnuffer]

Most rule sets indicate that the hands must be separated. The ball can be in the hand or the glove.

This is correct, it is just the hands, sorry!

-W

 

[LAdad]

I was watching a local college showcase tournament this weekend. One pitcher never once put her hands together before the pitch, but the umps never called an illegal pitch. Don't know if they just didn't notice (doubtful) or just didn't care to call it. Seemed strange.

In showcases they almost never call illegal pitches. (Worse, they often don't call leaving early either.)

 

[NVfishing]

This was a double pump. Hands apart, ball in right hand. Ball brought into glove and then rocking back with ball leaving glove and going behind pitcher, then coming forward to shoulder height, then being brought back down and behind pitcher again, then going through the windmill. I could not believe Ump not calling this. We had umpires calling illegal pitches on the 7 and 8 year olds but not this?