Little League Dilemma

I've coached little league ( a long time ago), it was fun, competitive, and more than anything my kids all had fun win or lose (but we never lost). Which brings us to a story from Salt Lake that just blew my mind. Read the full details here, but here's a quick synopsis:

Salt Lake, little league championship. Last inning. The best hitter on the opposing team is up with two outs. The kid has already hit a homer and a triple. Any rational coach would think about intentionally walking the best hitter so that he doesn't hit another homer, makes perfect sense to me. One problem though, the kid that hits after him is a cancer survivor. So they walk the best hitter, and the cancer kids starts crying after he gets two strikes. Oh boy. What were they thinking? The kid strikes out, crying his eyes out. The opposing coach is furious.

So, if you were the coach would you have walked the best hitter to get to the kid w/ cancer? I'm not sure I'd be able to do much celebrating if I did that. Maybe the bigger question is what in the world is the cancer kid doing batting behind the best hitter. You don't put Mario Mendoza behind Babe Ruth...Idiot.

How many of you would play for the win in that situation?