Official ruling: You guys got it. After the ball hits the pylon it's dead so the stuff that happened after that is of no significance.
The result of the play is indeed a safety so team A would certainly accept the penality by R for the illegal bat.
Good dialog on the special enforcement. That's correct, it's during loose ball play so the enforcement spot is the previous spot. The FED could do a better job of explaining the special enforcement rule. It should have something in parenthesis in 10.5 like "(and it's a running play)."
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