Cat and her Towel ???

[JEL]

Originally posted by softball_junky
I saw an illegal pitch called on the Tennessee pitcher Abbott when she was pitching vs UCLA. Last night the commentators were talking about Cat’s pitching and showed a close up shot of her feet. She came off the ground and no illegal pitch was called. Lisa Fernandez said “opps that was illegal.” It doesn’t appear she leaps all of the time but I am not there so it is hard to tell. I think the teams that are there got there by playing the game not complaining about towels. There has been some great games.

It's easy to see an illegal pitch in slow motion from several different angles. Fernandez was partially correct, that was an IP on the close-up replay, but it was not a crow-hop as she reported. I couldn't tell 100% but I believe that Monica Abbott was called for a crow-hop. The crow-hop is a rarer occurrence than the leap, and much easiear to see IMO.

I have also enjoyed the WCWS, wish I coulda stayed awake for all the Michigan/Tennessee game.