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Originally posted by bobbrix
Sequence (from your description; assume right-handed pitcher):
1) Pushes off rubber with pivot foot (right foot).
2) Both feet in air, left foot ahead of right foot.
3) Left foot lands and stops.
4) Right foot catches up to left foot, landing and stopping next to it.
(ball is released sometime at or between #s 3 & 4)
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Sorry Deion, but I've got to think there might have been something that you have missed. The way you explained it and as bobbrix summarized above, it seems it would be a definite leap. I'm wondering if the umpire's opinion was that the left foot was on the ground before the right foot come off the ground.
But then again, perhaps the umpire was not very experienced. Letting a coach sit in the stands and continue to run his mouth after he has been ejected does not show good judgement either.