And what about the heated argument from the offense that their runner would have beaten out the play at first - they don't get that either, and are penalized with a strike!
The ruling here is that the umpire yelling FOUL makes it FOUL. Right or wrong.
Now, at the risk of someone calling this a TWP (
), what if the ball was a basehit to centerfield. Rookie BU on a bad day, for some reason had glanced away (perhaps watching a runner steal), saw something in his peripheral vision (perhaps even hearing something hit the fence), and yells FOUL!
Rulebook says it's Foul. And a strike. Do we, in this case, use 9-1-c to simply "do-over" or even place runners?