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FOUL BALL!!!!
Although I'm thankful I wasn't put in your position and expected to make a split-second decision . . . I think you missed this one. However, I'd be willing to bet that this call you made didn't (ultimately) cost either team the ball game. Right?
Now I don't know about OBR rules, but in FED ball (I don't know why it would be any different in this situation) "a ball is credited to the batter when a pitch is not touched by the bat and is not a strike or when there is an illegal pitch or pitcher delay."
Maybe that's not total clarification, but it's what I came up with. Think of this.
If there was a runner trying to steal on the pitch. Since you called the pitch a ball . . . is the ball still live, allowing him to advance? I don't think so.
And though there may be instances in which the ball is dead and the batter is credited a ball . . . I don't think this particular instance applies.
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