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I guess you folks have never seen this kind of riddle before...
Even though he says, "What is the ruling?", he's not asking for a ruling - he's asking for an explanation.
He's asking us to see if we can figure out what happened to cause this situation to occur. IE - what did the umpire see?
It's like one of these: "A man is found dead, face down in a field wearing an unopened backpack. What happened?" One answer being that this man was a parachutist whose chute failed to open.
That said, I cannot come up with the answer. Can you?
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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