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I'm guessing as to what happened in the Astro game... my read on it was the batter thought the pitch hit him on the foot but the plate umpire wasn't sure if it did or not. The first base umpire, seeing the batter's reaction as he was walking towards first base, raised his hands as if the ball was dead when in fact, the plate umpire didn't make any signal either way. R1, seeing U1 with his hands up, figured the batter got hit so he started jogging towards second base.
I think the umps got together and ruled that the batter was not hit by the pitch, but since U1 killed the ball which put R1 at a disadvantage, they ruled the pitch a ball, brought back the batter and put R1 back on first.
Again, I'm not sure if this is what really happened but I'm just making a guess at it. I think the problem was that U1 prematurely assumed the pitch hit the batter BEFORE the PU actually made that determination. When the pitch was actually ruled a ball (that it did NOT hit the batter), it left U1 looking like he killed a play that he shouldn't have.
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