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Originally Posted by UmpTTS43
Hahn called trailing runner out because he thought preceding runner was on base. PU called runner out for abandonment, not for running outside his baseline. After the crew got together, it was determined that the preceding runner was off of the base when tagged, hence trail runner allowed to stay at third.
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If trail runner was left on 3b, then this is only plausible answer to what happened I can think of. Runner should not be called out for OOB because he was not OOB avoiding a tag. He was OOB because he was running to dugout because he thought he was out already.