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When I've umpired tournaments with "drop dead finish the batter", I always let the batter finish any apparent attempt to run bases, etc. and all playing action to be completed before I called the game. Barring any specific direction from the TD or UIC, that's how I would handle it. As noted above, these are always tournament specific rules and while somewhat common sense, leave things open to interpretation. We had a long discussion about "batting the lineup - batter gets injured during at bat and cannot continue - what do you do?" a while back. TD's and leagues make up rules and modifications for whatever reason and never consider the downstream effects.