Honestly! I agree completely. There are pichers that don't get caught when they; crowhop, relpant, don't bring their hands together, don't present both hands, step outside the pitching lane, etc, etc, etc....especially when they are at the 10-12U area. When the pitchers reach the 14-16U+ arena, they are ticked when they start getting called on what they have been doing for 4+ years now. Umpires are doing no service to 10-12u players by not calling illegal pitches that they would call in the upper age ranges, just to get through the repetitive called balls. If a pitcher is pitching illegal indoors I would bet dimes to dollars that she is doing the same thing outdoors. Especially in this case. This is the style of this picher, not something that is singular to indoor pitching. I have seen pitchers that bury a crowhop inside of a puff of infield dust and fool a homeplate umpire and can't understand when they get called on crowhopping by a seasoned base umpire. Here is some real simple advise; don't do it and you won't get called on it! It is easier to fix the problem in the mechanics from the start than to blame the other coach, the wind, the umpire, the walking taco indigestion, the hormones, the dirt, the cleats, whatever! Just pitch within the rules and dominate the other team! No excuses!
