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Well, I'll make this easy and assume this is FED ball. Ball dead immediately upon balk, 1 run scores, no outs, game over.
-BR called out upon passing R1 after he touches 1B. One out.
-R1 is protected to 2B due to obstruction. He reaches the base, but then retreats on his own. He makes it back to the bag in time to retouch. Either way, he's reached the base he was protected to (either 1B or 2B). The obstruction is now irrelevant.
-R3's touching of home (whether on the advance or retreat; it's not clear if he did touch initially) is scored a run, and his retreat to 3B is disregarded.
-R2's contact with the coach is incidental and disregarded. Since R3 has scored, he's no longer considered a runner for purproses of passing another runner, so his passing of R2 is ignored.
-For the sake of argument, I'll assume that R1's "carrying" of R2 does not count as "passing" another runner. R2 is tagged out, but R1 scores. Since all runners advanced to or past the base awarded, the play stands. 2 in, 2 out, game over.
But wait -- the moment R3 touches home the game is over, so the rest is nothing. The defense can't cancel the run since all the runners remaining had advanced past the base they were forced to. 1 in, 1 out (BR passing R1), game over.
Jim -- why not have the on-deck batter drag a runner across the plate while you're at it?
Dennis
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