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Thu Jul 08, 2004, 11:35pm
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Game tonight - 10U softball, I'm doing plate. Fastpitch, or as fast as they get at that age. Anyway, this one pitcher is very good - fast, but also has very good control. As I was watching her motion as she was warming up I noticed that when she steps on the plate she has her shoulders slightly turned. Instead of having her shoulders even with first and third, she has them turned about 15 - 25 degrees off. Not much, in fact I couldn't really notice it behind the plate, but when I was watching her warmup I noticed. This league uses ASA rules but has them modified for the grade, so this is not supposed to be called an illegal pitch, but I wondered if you guys had seen this before and when would call an illegal pitch (assuming she's a little older and playing with full ASA rules) - is being slightly out of line enough or would you wait for it to be pronounced.
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Fri Jul 09, 2004, 12:30am
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Leave it alone
Leave it alone, if you go looking for that green sticky stuff on the end of someone's nose, you usually end up with the stuff in a baby's diaper.
This as you describe it is not worth messing with, especially with that age bracket Scott
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Fri Jul 09, 2004, 07:30am
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OK, Especially at that age. If I can see the shoulder of the throwing arm the entire time thru delivery I'm ok.
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Fri Jul 09, 2004, 08:08am
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15-25 degrees? Doubt I would bother with that at any age. At the younger ages, I might quietly mention it to the girls coach so he would be aware. They can work on it at practice. Then when and if it is called in a game, it won't frustrate her mechanics. Somewhere along her career, some opposing coach will pick that up and try and use that to his advantage.
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