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Originally Posted by Shmuelg

I'm with IR here.

Call it only if you have been calling that type of movement an IP the whole game.

Personally, I don't think I would call it an IP, but I'd have to see the precise situation. Is it part of her natural pitching movement, and then she stops? If so, IP. But again, IP's should be nipped in the bud waaaaay back in inning No.1.

Shmuel

There was nothing anywhere near a IP in the game until the last "attempted pitch"

I can't figure out why the pitcher stopped, unless her fielders being so close to home bothered her.

May have been best to finish the game this way because if the batter had swung there may have been a seriously injured defensive player as they were very close.

I always get a kick out of the "you have to call that early" crowd. Good possibility that it didn't happen until late, as was the case here.

From what I hear, you guys (all nine of you) worked a two day, three diamond tournament and only had one other problem. Sounds like a pretty well called tourny.