Your partner was out of line. Imagine if that pitched ball had hit the kid while he was tucking in his shirt. When I was coaching, I'd have gone ballistic at what he did.
Anyway, when the ump directs a player to correct something, there's an implied time out. If the ump asks to see the ball, can a runner advance while he's inspecting it, just because no one actually registered an official time out with the U.S. Bureau of Time Outs?
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