Here a balk, there a balk...

[C'monBlue]

The book says somewhere (I don't have mine with me at the moment) that one cannot run the bases in reverse order to make a mockery of the game. In that case the runner would be called. However, if the runner heads back to the previous base and he gets tagged, I also have an out. It's up to him and/or his coach to know the situation. If he wanders away, he does so at his own risk.

Consider a variation on this theme. What if R1 rounds second on a caught flyball? Are you saying that he wouldn't be permitted to return to first since he had already acquired second?

Outs are sometimes hard to come by. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

[mcrowder]

No, there are a few things that coaches/players cannot simulate the call of. "FOUL BALL!!" is one of them. You can't let the team of this coach benefit from yelling "FOUL BALL" (baserunner can't be expected to distinguish between a coach's voice and the umpire's).

[orioles35]

No, I didn't mean that...which is why I added the "...when the play was over" part so retouch would be possible WHILE the play was still on-going.

If the opposing coach hadn't been insisting (incorrectly) that the ball was dead because of a foul ball, I wouldn't have had any problem with the runner being called out (I was PU last night, BTW). Since the coaches got involved, I didn't see fit to penalize the offense.