Thread: Illeal Pitch
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Old Mon Mar 07, 2016, 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by CecilOne View Post
That means it is illegal immediately, not that it is Immediately DB.
The NFHS penalties and ASA effects cover that.
Not trying to be hard-headed, but NFHS Rule 5-1-1 starts out by saying, "Ball becomes dead immediately when..."

And then 5-1-1p says, "an illegal pitch occurs, but no pitch is delivered to the batter." So waiting God only knows how long between the illegal pitch infraction and then the moment the pitcher decides not to deliver the pitch is counter-intuitive to the rule stating it's an immediate dead ball.
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