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The coach may have been experienced but he was not very smart, because he could call time and make a dead ball appeal of a runner missing a base, and never sent his catcher into the dugout. Also, for a runner who missed home, but has entered the dugout, the catcher need not tag the runner, but just stand at home with the ball and annunce the appeal, and this could be a live ball appeal.
Normally on a catch and carry it is a one base award unless intentional (umpire judgement), and then two base award. This was not a catch and carry like you might normally see, but it was intentional. The catcher took a live ball into the dugout, intentionally. It was live before he went in the dugout and dead when he crossed the dugout line. I don't think we can tag a runner out when the ball is dead, but we can award bases. I think I would award 2 bases for intentionally carrying a live ball into dead ball territory.
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