Absolutely not. If PU has his hand up and F1 pitches, what happens next? "NO PITCH!!!!" Why? Because PU has effectively called TIME, even without the actual words. So if the pitch wouldn't count, neither would the illegal pitch.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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