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Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000
I was responding to the OP had F1 not wiped the sweat off her hand before contacting the ball. Her hand was the contact point on the ball.
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But, the rule doesn't reference the hand generically as a contact point. It refers to the "contact points of the pitching hand or
fingers", meaning there are non-contact points of the pitching hand and fingers.
You can't just call it because she fails to wipe off, as that remedy applies only to licking the fingers. In fact, even when a pitcher licks her fingers and "wipes off" it is almost never a thorough or effective action, but it does fulfill the letter of the rule.
Other than dinging a pitcher for licking her fingers and then not pretending to wipe it off, the only way to enforce the other aspects of the rule is to inspect the hands or the ball.
The whole moisture contamination of a 12" softball is absurd anyway. Attempting to enforce the #2 situation in the OP because she did not wipe off is OOO and is not proper enforcement of the rule, IMO.