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Originally Posted by SC Ump
A pitcher is on the pitching plate, takes the signal and then brings her hands together and pauses. She then does a 'false start' of moving only six to ten inches as if she were going into her wind up. Shen then stops and (a) steps off pithcing plate, or (b) restarts her windup and delivers the pitch.
What's the call in ASA vs Fed?
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In both ASA and FED the rulebooks state that "The pitcher may use any windup desired provided no motion to pitch is made without immediately delivering the ball to the batter". However, as I stated before in ASA and FED the start of the pitch is defined differently. Therefore, the above rule should be interpreted to mean that once the pitch has started, no motion to pitch can be made without immediately delivering the ball to the batter. So in ASA the pitcher can stop her windup before she separates her hands because the pitch has not begun yet, but in FED she can not. Correct?