“but kind of excessive on the suspension. “
What would you recommend within the rules.
Call an out.
It happened to me. I was lucky to make contact, let alone reach base. Whenever I made contact, I immediately dropped the bat and ran for first.
Then in high school they instituted this rule if you dropped the bat too close to the catcher, you were out. I was called out several times....I didn’t think it was all that close to the catcher either.