I played in a tournament a few years ago where a runner was killed by being hit in the face in the same scenario you described. F4 was taking the throw SS, automatically turned and fired to 1st. Runner was still upright, took the ball in the face. He was placed on life support for a few days before he died. F4 did not throw at him intentionally, just turned and fired. The runner left a wife and 2 young kids. Blame was never placed on F4 by anyone. It was something that just happened in a bang-bang play. F4, by his choice, did not play the rest of the tournament.
In your case though, you intentionally threw at someones face. You should feel lucky you were only thrown out for that game. If it was my league, you would never play there again. You said yourself, it is a low end league. Sounds to me like you joined the wrong league.
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