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A glove worn by a pitcher is an illegal glove, by definition, if it has any white on it.
An illegal glove that touches a batted ball is a 3 base award.
The penalty for a pitcher who throws a pitch, but does not field a ground ball afterwards, while wearing an illegal glove is to remove it. That is the only penalty.
Bottom of 7th no outs, starting pitcher walks the first batter and coach makes a pitching change. First pitch is bunted back to the pitcher to move the runner into scoring position. Offesnive comes out with the white on glove complaint because the pitcher did not quite cover up all the white surrounding the Rawlings R. Does the FED really want us to end the game by awarding 3 bases to the batter and the runner on 2b? I doubt it, but who knows.
I have asked for an official interpretation from my association's interpreter because absent that this ia 3 base award, by rule. I can't believe FED would want to turn umpires into white letter policeman to ensure they don't miss one and get caught into a this situation.
[Edited by DG on Feb 13th, 2006 at 11:23 PM]
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