What do you call the Effect(b) of 4.6.C.8 Unreported Substitute on defense makes a play?
b. Have the last batter return to bat and assume the ball and
strike count. All runners return to the last base occupied prior
to the play.
Seems reasonable to me that, if the protest was upheld, that you can't bring a dead ball back to life, and that the only reasonable fix is a "do over".
I copied and pasted a ruling from ASA. Don't attribute a quotation to me as if I was the origin of the statement.
If you don't like it, go address the ASA interpreter who gave that ruling in the first place. I don't agree with it anyway, which you should have seen by my other posts.