When we lift a pitcher during an inning we always get balls out to the fielders to make sure they stay warm. We were involved in a playoff game in the Southern Section. We removed our pitcher, threw the balls out, and one of the umpires told us that it was against the rules to do that. I told him this was our 26th game and at no time did any umpire tell us this before. He told me, "Well they do not know the rules." Home plate umpire said he had never heard of that rule but deferred to him because he was the "rule guy." Does this rule exist? If so, what is it?
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