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Illegal Pitch
Running on 1 and 3. Bunt situation. F3 is holding the runner on, and on the pitch sprints towards home plate, however he runs on the foul-side of the 1st base line with BOTH feet. I call an illegal pitch (which was ball 4, loading bases).
Coach is p'd (yadda yadda yadda).
My confirmation question is: The rule book states "at the time of the pitch". What exactly does that mean? when the ball is released? the entire windup to catcher catching the pitch? For my situation, the windup started, and F3 took off at that point, so when the pitcher released the ball, F3 was in foul territory.
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