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Why not just make it simple. 1st calm the defensive coach down if he is right tell him to go out and talk to his pitcher and get ready to put the ball into play. Since no damage is going to done by awarding the balk advance the runners make the ball call on the pitch, wait till you put the ball back into play, step back and call the runner on 3rd out for passing the runner who is now standing on 2nd and this situation that would be the 3rd out and ball game and Yes if the offensive coach wants to protest tell him to please do so he can explain his cheating actions to the board.
Now if the situation was different and there had not been 2 outs or a 2 run lead I probably would of ignored the balk saying coach called time 1st called the runner on 2nd out for passing the runner, called the runner out at 1st for being off the base and ejected for causing a travesty to the game for running the bases in the reverse order and I am sure in just a short time I would be sending his coach on the road out the gate too for arguing the call
Just some thoughts
Don
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