Sounds like somebody just wants to pad their stats. I know the "official" rules would tell me that pitcher #2 would get the win. But these official rules don't take into account pitching limitations in leagues and tournaments such as "you can only pitch 3 innings if you want to pitch the next game o...

As a former umpire, abandoning a base is seldom (if ever) called. In your description, the runner never left the baseline even though he was running the bases backwards (which isn't illegal). As an umpire I cannot know the runner's intent. Maybe he was trying to decoy the defense? In other words, un...