A related question: Someone has retrieved a foul ball or two, and is ready to throw them in to you or the catcher. Somewhere in the rules, it says that time is out when an umpire handles a live ball. In a live ball situation (maybe B1 has just walked), suppose a ball is coming in from the sidelines, you and maybe the catcher are looking over that way, the ball is thrown to you or to the catcher who hands it to you, and while this is going on, something fun happens on the field, maybe in the worst case a steal of home. Is time automatically out anywhere in this sequence of events, or should you bark out "time!" when it gets started?
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