Illegal pitch video.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Big Slick

And the extra half cent: I think there is way too much effort and concentration on being outside the 24". If the pitcher starts in the middle of the pitcher's plate, a female pitcher cannot be outside the 24" without leaping (which should be called). Bio-mechanically, it is impossible for someone under the height of 6'5" to drag and deliver a pitch with proper hip placement.

Completely and utterly untrue. I would say that a 24" violation is very rare, especially from the middle. But it's not bio-mechanically impossible at all. We had one pitcher 2-3 years back that took advantage of local umpires who just refuse to call IP's and pitched in such a way that her whole body was left (from her POV) of the 24" lane when she release. As in ... almost a balk in baseball, she went so far toward the first base line.

And she started on the THIRD base side of the plate.

Got called for IP's on the first 5 consecutive pitches to begin her district tourney and was pulled, never to pitch again in that tourney.