Ball or Strike

[DaveASA/FED]

Is the coach crazy or what?????? OBS only effects runners in this case (exception Catchers obs does effect the batter). The ONLY thing I can think of is the coach was confused with an illegal pitch where the offensive coach would have the option of taking the play, runner out at 2nd adn batter gets a strike, or inforce the illegal pitch, Runner advances one base and a ball on the batter.

But OBS, with the exception of catchers obstruction, would never effect the batters count, and even catchers obstruction does not effect the count, you just get first base if you inforce the penalty---no change of a strike to a ball.