Attention Pitchers: Pitching Rule Updated

The Spring Issue of the Umpire Newsletter “Between the Lines” can be found on the Softball Canada webpage: http://www.softball.ca/page.asp?id=65

The individual link is: http://www.softball.ca/files/2011BTLSpring.pdf

Softball Newfoundland and Labrador Umpire-in-Chief John Sullivan would like to advise the softball community (Pitchers and Coaches) to pay particular attention to Page 4 whereby the pitcher must leap straight ahead and release the pitch. Not delivering the pitch in a straight and forward motion will result in an illegal pitch.