Confused Pitching Penalty

[DG]

Very interesting question. According to the FED rules quoted the ball is dead immediately. The penalty is that the pitcher could be ejected, but since the ball is dead nothing else happens. More likely the umpire would tell the pitcher to stop doing that. Only if the pitcher were to actually deliver the pitch would an illegal pitch exist, which would either be a ball, or a balk. But since the pitch was dead, can this happen? It appears, that in FED this is a dead ball, no penalty, unless the umpire thinks the pitcher should be ejected.

However, this is another one of those rarely complained about rules that I don't watch very closely unless someone complains (amateur level).