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Welcome aboard. I'm going to assume that by "Williamsport rules" you mean LL ball. Do they have such a rule that permits a batter who carelessly throws a bat to be called out? Is that considered interference? Even though I live about 30 miles from Williamsport, I don't have or want anything to do with LL, so keep that in mind. Under any other sanctioning body, that would have been the wrong call as there was no interference by a thrown bat in your play with the ball going to F4 and the bat going backwards. If you felt it was deliberate, toss the batter for unsportsmanlike conduct after the play is over but the replacement player would be put on whatever base the B-R ended up on.
As to the conversation with the scorekeeper - I would not have had that discussion. Keeping score is not my job, it's their job.
And the umpire in the stands was so far out of line with making any comment at all that he's got no credibility at all.
Steve M
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