Actually, my partner was a different issue. Before I could say anything to him, he was already yelling at me from the "C" slot that the pitchers hands were separated. Which, just added fuel to the fire.

And, I banged the pitcher from the get go. As a matter of fact, coach's reply (stop me if you've heard this before) was: "She's been pitching like that all year, and you wait til now to call that an illegal pitch?" My reply: "Coach, I waited until now because I hadn't seen her, or the rest of your team, until now." Then he asked me what did I want him to do; "Change pitchers or what??" My reply: "I'm an umpire, not a coach. That's your job!" He didn't like that answer.

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