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and this is why when I umped I always watch pitchers warmups...you want to not impact the game so you let coaches know ahead of time what you see and that if you see it in a game you will call it. Sometimes they listen sometimes they don't and you have to make them believers. Like you said at 10U rec league you point it out maybe call it a few times and then really try and work with the girls. 14U Travel Tournament I see it in warmups and simply say you are doing X and if I see that in the game you are goin to get an IP called and first pitch of the game it's getting called.You’d be proud of me texasheat ... I had a game at a State Tournament today that looked like an Oprah Winfrey show taping. “You get an illegal pitch! You get an illegal pitch! And you get an illegal pitch! She gets an illegal pitch! Everybody gets an illegal pitch!”
9 illegal pitches on both teams in the first two innings resulting in two runs scored, three outs negated, and two strikeouts became walks. As an umpire, I hated that it had that much of an impact on the game.
The bad part is one pitcher corrected her illegal act with a different illegal act. By that point, I have to confess I gave up (she was being pummeled like a speed bag by then).