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Well, I'm gonna give you my opinion.
The action originally described is not a violation IMO.
The rule does not require the whole foot to be on the pitcher's plate at the start of the pitch. If F1 wishes to only have her heel on top of the plate at the start of the pitch, then any natural motion on the pitch will cause her to lose contact with the plate as she takes the required step. Matter of fact the diagrams illustrating legal pitching positions in the Fed book spicifically show this.
Just use a little common sense and consider the whole rule, not fragments. This is not pushing off from some other place than the pitching plate.
Roger Greene
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