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Originally Posted by Dakota
This takes away the opportunity of the defense to retire runners on base, including fielder's choice, double play, triple play, live ball appeal for leaving early on a caught fly, etc.
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There can't be that many batter/runners that hit into what might be routine double and triple plays and then run for the dugout instead of 1B. If so, wouldn't the outs made prior to (
me noticing 
) them entering the dugout still stand?
As for the live ball appeal for leaving early on a caught fly... the person entering the dugout is not the batter runner, but a retired player. Her batted ball was caught.