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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Could you restate this for clarification?
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Pitcher has ball, standing behind pitcher's plate, looking at catcher for a few seconds (I am not assuming what she is doing).
While pitcher is standing behind pitcher's plate the batter gets into the batter's box and gets ready to receive pitch.
Pitcher steps onto the pitcher's plate and immediately brings hands together.
She either - goes into pitching motion immediately OR stands with her hands together for a few seconds and then goes into her pitching motion.
In both cases it is an illegal pitch, but can not be a quick pitch because the batter was ready to receive the pitch.
BTW - I edited my earlier post to remove the dreaded small ball language.