Runner on second, batter hits fly ball to right, ball gets caught. The runner tags heads to third and is safe.
After the ball is retrieved back to the pitcher, she goes to the mound, pithcher's coach tells her to throw the ball to second to appeal the call- claiming runner leaving early. Base umpire calls "safe".
At that same moment third base coach tells the runner at third to run home; she does and is called safe by the home base umpire.
Coach on defense this time appeals this call, saying that it should have been a deadball when the pitcher threw to second; that the runner at third should not have taken off from third. The argument from the third base coach is that time out was never called.
After the umps conferred, the runner was sent back to third. This was a friendly so no arguments ensued. The question is, must there be a time out called to make an appeal? Is it an automatic time out once pitcher threw to second for the appeal? Was this a live ball, still?
Just wondering? it may happen again