2007-08-14 10:24:10 · 15 answers · asked by Rocketman 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
You can throw a pitch any way you want . You are allowed 1 step back and 1 step forward directly toward home plate as long as you keep your pivot foot in contact with the pitching plate (rubber). For those who don't know the pivot foot is the one you push off with.
2007-08-14 11:55:50 · answer #1 · answered by Tria R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in the official rules of baseball about the pitcher delivering the ball overhand or underhand. It’s just that the softball-like underhand delivery is less conducive to throwing a smaller ball 60’-6” downward off a mound with the accuracy that can be attained throwing overhand. With perhaps a few exceptions even the best underhand, or submarine pitchers tend to throw quarter-arm or drop their body to one side when delivering the pitch but don't use a softball style motion.
2007-08-14 18:35:35 · answer #2 · answered by pearse's dad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO it is not, a few years back the Angels had a prospect that was an underhand softball pitcher that converted his motion to be legal in baseball and was quickly working his way up to the majors...he left the game just before he would have been called up, i never saw why he hung it up but he was highly effective...had a mid 90's fastball with movement.
2007-08-14 17:43:02 · answer #3 · answered by bdough15 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as far as I know. It just is less effective because few people can throw in the 90's underhand. When baseball was created pitchers threw underhand because overhand was illegal and that is what allowed them to throw 600 innings per season, but slowly the rules changed to allow side-arm pitchers and finally over-hand pitchers. Everyone threw overhand by 1900.
2007-08-14 17:32:05 · answer #4 · answered by embarko3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not.
Mike Myers pitched underhanded for the Yankees up until two weeks ago.
2007-08-14 17:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jeanne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. As long as he follows the rules relating to delivery of the pitch, he's within the legal boundaries.
Many sidearmers have been, in effect, underhand pitchers or very close to it.
2007-08-14 17:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. However submarine pitcher like Kent Tekulve came awfully close. The rule was changed around 1879.
2007-08-14 18:17:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there are many underhand Major League pitchers. Do you watch baseball at all?
2007-08-14 18:25:45 · answer #8 · answered by Fourtonfour 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nope
2007-08-14 17:45:10 · answer #9 · answered by David C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to mr. baseball I play fastpitch softball and have you ever seen jennie finch or michelle smith pitch to the mlb boys, none of them can hit it becauses it rises instead of drops through the zone, but to answer your ? yes
2007-08-14 17:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by jo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋