Sat Jan 21, 2017, 08:17am
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Lowcountry, SC
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Originally Posted by CecilOne
I have always thought the word "pitch" covers any pitch, regardless of legal, illegal, ball, strike, fast ball, slow pitch arc, uncaught, ....
The words you quote seem only to prevent idiots from arguing; like the extra words in the infield fly rule. 
But then, rule books have never qualified as literature.  |
Perhaps. But quite often when words are added to or deleted from a rule book, the organization would say why they did that. If it is their intent that a pitch is a pitch is a pitch, as you surmise, then I would have expected that comment somewhere in the book's preface or in a correspondence covering changes.
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