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This is a common if/then statement; logic doesn't extend to the opposite sequence. When the pitch IS released, the offense has an option available. Your version (#2) not only takes the if/then statement out of sequence by killing the play because YOU have decided the pitch shouldn't be released, but it also denies the offense a possibly beneficial option. I do not see any rule support for declaring anything but "illegal pitch" and a delayed dead ball. Personally, the only time I would declare an immediate dead ball without waiting to see what the pitcher does is when the pitcher defaces the ball or applies a foreign substance; those are instances where completion may result in harm to a player from the altered ball condition, and that ball needs to be removed from play as soon as possible. Can anyone quote rulebook language in any major set that says differently?
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