ASA vs NFHS Pitching Rules

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by rwest

Per FED, The picther may use any windup desired provided:

a. no motion to pitch is made without immediately delivering the ball to the batter. ===> So once the motion starts if they stop then they have not immediately delivered the ball to the batter.

The same is true for ASA, but the point the pitch starts is different. In ASA the pitch starts once the hands separate, so any stop before that point is legal. After that, it's an illegal pitch.

You are overinterpreting what this means. Would you call this an IP in NFHS? Pitcher brings hand together and pulls them (together) back to her body. She takes her step forward while separating the hands and beginning the windmill. This is a common mechanic, yet the hands come together, the motion of the windup (Fed definition) begins, and the hands stop before they separate.

And, in ASA, the pitcher cannot stop the forward motion after the hands separate.

In neither code can the pitcher stop the pitch. But we were discussing stopping the motion of the hands before they separate.