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Originally Posted by DG
I have never seen this happen and now that I have seen all this discussion on it if I ever do I am on the way to the gate as soon as the runner touches home, dropping any baseballs I still have toward the home dugout. Since the batter-runner can go to 1B at any time as long as he has not entered the dugout I am not going to stick around long enough for a defensive coach to think this up. Once I am gone the defensive coach can't raise the question so he better be quick. And if I'm standing around like I am waiting for some event to happen he may figure out there is a reason.
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If you leave the field before the game is officially over, you are opening up a huge can of worms. Would you leave the field on a walk-off, 2-out homer when the batter-runner clearly missed first base? Of course not, because you know there
may be an appeal. Can you imagine the defense trying to properly appeal but the umpires decided to head for the hills to avoid it?
If the B-R decides not to go to first--at all--you've got no choice but to declare him out and nullify the run.