[Tristan Lall]

It's not really supposed to be a part of the game challenge; the referee erred by sending the balls back on to the field. <G25> requires that balls shot over the end walls be given to a human player on that end of the field. Only balls which exit over the sides of the field are to be returned to the playing surface at approximately the point at which they exited (and even then, the rule implies that they should be simply placed along the sides, not thrown back into play from the point at which they are returned).

I saw field attendants at FLR rolling balls onto the field (which is questionable, but might be correct—albeit a stretch—depending on the accepted definition of "placed on the field just inside the field boundary"), but I never noticed anyone actually returning the balls to the wrong position entirely.