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Thanks RichMSN and dookiexman. I appreciate your views and sharing your thoughts.

I was behind the plate for a LL Majors game. R3, no out, 2-1 count to the batter (which I announce). Pitch comes, batter swings and misses, ball gets by catcher and rolls to backstop. Coaches are yelling, "Go! Go!". I believe they are telling R3 to steal home. However, the batter, becoming confused, runs to 1B even though it is strike 2. The catcher retrieves the ball, R3 is still at 3B, batter is running toward 1B and the catcher throws to 1B but bad throw goes into right field. Batter reaches 2B. R3 scores on overthrow. I call time, inform the batter it is only strike 2 and put him back in the box. I also put R3 back on 3B. By rule I believe it is up to the defense to know the count and not make that throw to "retire" the batter. Simply hold onto the ball or try and go after R3. Defense's choice. But since the catcher did make the throw, the run should have counted, the batter back in the box with a 2-2 count, game continues. In the older divisions I do I don't believe this ever would have happened, but should it I would allow the run to score. But since this was a LL Majors game, it didn't sit well with me that the offense should gain an advantage by causing confusion. In OBR I cannot find anything that addresses this type of situation. There are rules governing other types of confusion caused by the offense (7.08 (i) and 7.09(d)) but not this specific type of confusion. Basically I used 9.01 (c) to do what I thought was right considering the level of ball. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this situation. Did I mess it up? Did I get it right? Is there a rule I am missing someplace? Again, this is LL which uses OBR for the most part. I'm comfortable with what I did, as was my partner, the offensive manager and the defensive manager. There was zero issue with the ruling. I'm just curious as to what others think.