Sounds to me like the plate umpire DID make it "hot" again since the batter got a base hit. Whether he did it intentionally or not is unknown.
First of all, why didn't the 1b call time and throw the retreived ball back to the PU? His mistake, because the fact that he had a second ball......however innocent....no way can you call the runner out. Protect the runner back to first.
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