Thread: Legal pitch?
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Old Wed May 25, 2016, 01:44pm
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Originally Posted by kblump View Post
Fed rule set. Pitcher places her pivot foot heel on the plate, non-pivot foot toes on the plate. As she starts forward, she moves to the ball of her pivot foot to push off, but the ball of her foot is 3-4 inches in front of the plate due to how she intially placed her feet. That is the position of her feet at the time of release. Even though her intial foot placement is legal, I feel the pitch is illegal since she is pushing off from in front of the plate.

Legal or illegal?
Technically, illegal. In practice, allowed. I can't cite you anything on the latter, however. I'm interested to read other's views on this.
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