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"This would HAVE to assume that the call is a force play."
Wait a minute, Moose, you have missed an important interpretation. When a runner is called out for abandonment, it is NEVER in and of itself a force out. If a runner abandons before reaching his advance base, the defense may then appeal to record a "fourth out" at the base to which the runner failed to advance. (J/R sec 6.5, page 30, clarification of 7.10 and second example)
So, in Moose's play, I have:
RULING: The call is not a force. Run scores, defense may appeal, but they have no clue. Game over, circle the wagons.
P-Sz
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