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Personally I have a real problem with homeruns being declared outs. I see the reasoning behind it, you don't want to have teams load up and just pound HR's all day, but if that is what they are doing, them bump them up in class.
The reason I have a problem is because this is what I see happening all the time. A team will use up all of it's homeruns, and then a guy will come up, that has never hit a homerun before and all of a sudden everything goes right and he pops one out of the yard and now instead of being able to enjoy that moment, he's called out or in some cases ejected from the game for hitting the ball well. Or, you get a power hitter comming up, and he's afraid to swing the bat because he doesn't want to take a chance on hitting a homerun, so he just pounds it into the ground. It's like telling a basketball player that your team has made too many three-point shots so if you make another one, you get kicked out of the game and the other team gets the ball. Just doesn't make any sense.
I'd much rather see it that if you hit one over the fence after your limit, it's a base hit, all runners get one base. We've used this rule in many leagues that I umpire and I've never had a problem with a team comming up and hitting a ton of homeruns after they have used their limit.
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