Ran across this sit at eteamz

[cbfoulds]

Gordon & Tee are 100% right about this.

The "what if ...." " ...balk implications ..." " ...now add a batter ..." TWP scenarios add nothing to one's knowledge or understanding. It's nothing more than "playing w/ yourself" to try to show how smart you are about obscure applications of the rules.

In many hundreds of games at all levels, including my Little League years when TWP-like occurences were common (all sorts of wierd stuff happens w/ 10 year-olds), NOTHING like this has happened. F1 Dropped/ lost control of the ball, you bet. Batter doing anything but stand there: has never happened, and will never happen.

In the cosmicly-unlikely event that something like this did happen in a real game, I am sure that any umpire with any experience and understanding of the rules will rule correctly; the rest will simply make something up, just like they do for everything else.