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Originally Posted by UMP25
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.
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If batter hits a walk off he is very likely to touch every base easily. Don't make up a miss of 1B to discuss a point.