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Just wrapped up another fun-filled season of ASA Snow Flake softball and had some quite the interesting occurrences. Can some of you folks please comment on these rulings or lack thereof?

ASA - 6-10' arc: (1) Pitcher 1st presents ball and then 'slowly' and I do mean slowly brings his arm back and follows thru (without any hesitation) and makes the pitch. RULING: Legal since the motion was continuous even thought it was slow. Players also thought that each pitch must contain the 'same' consistent cadence/motion for a consistency pace. I did not see the 'consistent' mention in the ASA rules, so thought this was also legal. (2) Same pitcher at one point during a pitch, dropped his glove during the delivery. I assumed that this was a legal pitch if this was construed as 'un-intentional'. However, once a 2nd occurrence occurred, it could be construed as 'intentional' and ruled as an illegal pitch?

OBS: R1 on 3rd when B/R hits a ground ball to 2nd. F4 throws to F5 who now has R1 off of 3rd in a run-down. As the ball is thrown to each of the fielders to catch R1, F6 is in the base-path of R1 (yet no contact) which makes R1 veer to the right and R1 is then tagged out by F6 on the way back to 3rd base. RULING: Call OBS on F6 and award R1 3rd base since this was where R1 was headed?

Comments and rule references are welcome.