This situation is from the NFHS board. Since only a couple of you guys post over there with any regularity, I'm cutting and pasting it here for comment. (Since I did not see this situation, we have to take the description at face value.)
The situation was presented as NFHS rules. Comments using other rules are welcome, though.
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We had a play that occurred last week in a tournament in Davie. Here's the situation... R1 on first...
Pitcher goes into her windup and has a brain fart, holding on to the ball and not delivering. Easy call... illegal pitch... right? But wait... there's more.
R1 has pitcher timed, and so at the point that the pitcher WOULD have released the ball, she gets off the bag.
So... what do you call? Delayed dead ball on the illegal pitch would award R1 2nd base. R1 did not comply with the rule that states that she must remain on the base until the pitcher releases the ball. (Obviously, since the pitcher never released the ball.) If you look at the rules, it seems that the legal call is that the illegal pitch is turned into a NO PITCH, and that the runner is out. But then, why doesn't every pitcher do that kind of a play every now and then, and get the runner out?
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