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Had a situation that I've never had before this weekend. 1st and 3rd situation with runners in tie game.

I'm in set position waiting on pitch and catcher suddenly comes up and out of her squat and enters the rear of the left handed batter's box in a standing position. Batter was squaring to bunt. Catcher did this just before or right after pitch was delivered. It was unexpected so I'm not exactly sure of when.

It was obviously a "called" play because pitch was right to her chest high. End result was a called "ball". After the inning the OC comes up to me and asks about the rule on that. I ended up telling him it was a pitchout and it's legal and he bought it.

My question here is, I know where she was and she was "out of the catcher's box". Is the penalty simply a called ball?

I in no way saw this as trying to distract the batter so no way was this an "ejectable" situation.

Thanks,