Crow hop is never called!

[bellnier]

Sorry...I wasn't restricting myself to just the posts, but was referring to experience and observation. I've coached and seen 16U qualifiers where IPs were called as they occurred, and others, in the same season, where IPs were never called (I assume, now, by order of the organizers of each particular tournament). That's my definition of uneven application.

This is way off topic, but it still amazes me that at D1 NCAA level there are so many girls with bad pitching/throwing mechanics. My DD (who had not-so-great throwing mechanics) has retired from softball and moved on to rugby...where the rules, by rule, are not immediately applied by the ref unless the violation reverses the advantage in play...otherwise it's PLAY ON.