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The abuse of logic was intentional, to substantiate why any ruling that allows the defense to continue playing defense, but doesn't allow the offense to continue playing offense, is untenable.
I don't know if this counts as "authoritative" in your book - but I did present this sitch to my local TASO rules guru (this is the guy we call when any of us are stuck on a protest ruling, or wonder in hindsight after a game if we screwed one up).
His short but sweet answer is that the defense is still the defense until they leave the field, and that by default the offense is still the offense. If the defense is still making a play after the 3rd out, the offense can also do anything legal to continue play.
His shorter response to my follow up that some feel that BR is allowed to continue running, but no one else is was as follows: "Preposterous."
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