I discussed this with the tournament director
He said that I should not have been charged with an automatic out when the ejected player's turn at bat came because I was still batting more than nine players. He said the only time you take an automatic out is when you drop to less than nine players.
Bottom line is this is the kind of stuff that happens when you start monkeying with the rules. When you make ground rules, it is difficult, if not impossible to plan for every contingency.
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