LL ball lodged in defensive equipment

[RKBUmp]

Watching the Mexico/Japan LL game. Pitched ball bounces into catcher chest protector and become lodged in one of the flaps (dont know what Easton was thinking making a chest protector that has flaps large enough for a ball to get wedged in). I dont do baseball, but in softball this is a live ball, play on. Umpires in the game declared the ball dead and advanced the runners. Is this a correct ruling in baseball/little league?

[BayStateRef]

Kevin Henderson, the second base umpire, knew the rule and immediately made the proper call.

5.09-- The ball becomes dead and runners advance one base, or return to their bases without liability to be put out when --

(g) a pitched ball lodges in the catcher’s or umpire’s mask or paraphernalia; runners advance.

MLB adds the clause "And remains out of play" before the semi-colon -- and that was what ABC put on the screen for the proper rule. In Little League rules, there is no judgment about the ball remaining out of play. Because of the time it took to find the ball (the pitcher had to tell the catcher that the ball was sticking out of his chest protector), I say that is the right call either rules set.

[RKBUmp]

Thanks appreciate the rule quote. Still a stupid design to put flaps on the front of a chest protector that will open enough to swallow a ball.