Association in need of help.
 

Well here's a few things they tried to "learn me" :rolleyes: at this weeks association meeting...

Coach is standing in circle while pitcher is warming up between innings= charged conference. :eek:

BR running down lane and is pegged by throw, if foot is on the line = out call. and I quote "if chalk is flying, call her out" :eek:

Pitcher goes to plate with hands separated but ball is in glove and she flips/tosses (with the glove hand) it over to her pitching hand then she brings both hands together ="double dipping" for a IP. :eek: (looked this one up also and its not addressed, that I could find), but, COME ON!

I brought up the IP then runner leaving early scenario discussed this week here.... I shoulda took a pic, the glazed eye stares i got were priceless.

sigh.

By book I agree this is an IP. She came onto the pitcher's plate with hands seperated, legal. She then seperated by bringing the ball to her glove, legal. When she brought the hands back together she committed an IP. After the seperation you have to bring the pitch, if the hands come together a 2nd time you have an IP.

Now, if the "flip/toss" occurs at the same time she is stepping onto the plate then I disagree with the IP call if she brings them back together. But is she is already on the plate then "flip/toss" occurs then touches again, IP.

If you allow the flip/toss she can stand on plate and "play catch with herself" any number of times.

What rule makes this illegal?

Wow...just wow...I'm scratching my head to the point of bleeding reading this one!

Here's one:

NCAA rule 10.2.1.4 - The ball must be held and remain in one hand, either bare or gloved.

Don't have an ASA book yet so I have to paraphrase, but once the pitcher is on the plate and the hands seperate, the ball may not touch the glove again.

Once the hands seperate, the pitch begins and you may not touch the glove/ball together after pitch begins.

Can't say for sure, but I seriously doubt the association in the OP does NCAA... At least, not any NCAA that anyone else might recognize...

Only for about 15 seconds. ;)

im going the full 20 seconds on that ;)

to clarify... she steps "engages" the plate with hands sep., she the flips the ball to her pitching hand... she then brings hands together and steps forward and pitches... in NFHS i have nothing illegal. 1. hands sep.... 2. hands together...3. pitch.

The part I'm missing -- and I suspect the others as well -- is that the hands only separate once. They are apart. The pitcher steps on the plate. She makes the toss. They've still never been together. Then they come together for the first time. She separates and then throws home. That's all legal.
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thanks for the reference... will be using it tuesday.

Btw... got to see a little of the LSU vs. texas A&M game. :)

now its two calls later and im asked via phone... does the batter have to keep one foot in the batters box while taking signs? .... NO... thats baseball.
And can they wear sweatbands on their forearms or on their legs? .... ok, common sense tells me that wearing a sweatband on your leg ISNT the manufacture's intended way of using that equipment.... might be fun to watch em try and wipe their foreheads tho... given the right age group.
But on the forearm and she's not pitching (or if she is pitching and its not distracting).. the rules seem to have no issues with that
On a personal note: i was mentored by much wiser umpires to find anything on a pitchers throwing arm distracting and it heads off problems later on, so that's what i use.

Since when did i become the rules freaking guru for our association?... i think they are just trying to catch me giving them a wrong answer. like i overheard last night... "little dude cant be right about that... its only gonna be his third year". grrrrr.

or ASA softball

But they are trying to keep their metal spikes from rusting :p

He does, Teams like LSU, ULL, many others.