With the bases loaded, most pitchers, then and now, prefer to use a full windup, but Labine threw his first pitch from the stretch position.

He will use the new delivery only out of a stretch and not with a full windup.

The reason, says Anderson, is that pitchers don't go into a full windup nowadays with a man on base; they take a stretch instead.

My recollection is that no pitcher with half an ounce of gray matter in his skull ever took a full windup in that situation.

But with the bases loaded, he could revert to a full windup.

Against right-handed hitters, he went from the full windup.

Ishii said during his news conference that he had more confidence pitching from the stretch than from a full windup, rare for a starting pitcher.

Righetti will stay in Florida about 10 days, working on pitching out of a full windup.

Bo was next, and because he was a large teenager with no visible handicaps, Cowboy stepped back and threw from a full windup.

We've got him working from a full windup.