Pitching question

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by Manny A

I didn't read from the OP that the pitcher executed a backswing. She reached into her glove while on the plate, pulled the ball out, and then put it up against her hip for, as Andy wrote, "a noticeable pause". That's a stop in her motion, not a backswing, as I envision it.

Do the rules define a backswing? Does it have to go past the hip?

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Do the rules define a backswing? Does it have to go past the hip?

No they don't, so it leaves it to us to judge it. And I judge a pitcher removing her hand from the glove and then placing it against her hip and stopping is not a backswing. There is no element of "swing" in there.