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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
There is no rule requiring a "hand" position or location. The rule clearly refers to the WRIST being no further from the body than the elbow.
You may have been seeing an illegal pitch, but clearly looking at, or at least referring to, the wrong thing. If you look at the hand, or if the rule referred to the hand, all almost curve balls, rise balls, and screwballs would be illegal.
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I'm not a pitcher, but I did do a few practice arm swings in a pitching motion. It is nearly impossible to really keep the wrist truly below or inside the elbow. The key is that if it is so close you can't tell, it's legal.
What I was seeing was almost a perfect copy of the video, and was clearly an illegal pitch.
The problem is my plate umpire is a baseball umpire doing a little softball. I only had a couple times when I was out of position to see it clearly. Most of the time she was pitching I was over watching the runners on third.