Two questions from this weekend's tournament

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Originally Posted by JefferMC

In constrast, I was asked about a pitcher in a recent tournament.

The pitcher pauses (takes the signal) with her hands against her chest. Her windup starts with the pitching hand coming up out of the glove to above her shoulder and back around to the convential release, basically shaving at least 90 degrees of rotation off of most of her peers.

A little unusual, may get inside a batters head the first time she watches her, but nothing illegal that I could find.

We have several pitchers around here that do this. When their hands come together, they bring them up to their chest (hands close to the body), then down in front of their hips, hands still together or now pushed out from the body to fully extended about shoulder height when they start to separate. Pitching continues up over the top and ball is released. Very simple and no rock back. North Carolina pitcher Danielle Spaulding pitches this way.