Runner hit by batted, deflected ball

[Bluefoot]

Originally posted by Homer
[Ball should have remained live and play should have continued - assuming the runner didn't intentionally touch the ball.

But, as you called the out and stopped the play, you've got to undo things as best you can in your best judgment. You need to figure out, as best you can, how things would have ended up had you not erroneously stopped play. If, in your judgment, the runner would have ended up on third, you should have given him third and not returned him to second.

That he was not forced is not a consideration.

Is this correct? Should I have left it as a live ball, and let the play proceed? If it becomes a dead ball when R1 was hit with the tipped ball, or since I created a dead ball, can I put R1 on 3B, since he obviously would have made it there safely?

Now that I've thought more about it, the play is just the same as if a fielder misplayed any hit ball, and after touching the ball, an offensive player then unintentionally contacts the misplayed ball. That would be a live ball in play. So I should have not stopped play, nor called an out. What prompted me to do so was that the ball was hit as a line drive and the tipped ball was still smoking when it hit R1. I'll chalk this one up to experience.

Thanks.