This Just Seemed Odd...from rule aficionado/lurker

[More Cowbell]

MDL...I was wondering the same thing...if the runner, on the way to the dugout happened to step on home (on purpose or not), would he have kept to his guns and allowed the run? My gut feeling is no..it was the home team that made the put out, with much yelling "tag him, tag him"...and the kid at third was the go ahead run..with no outs.

To me, this is much different than "they forgot how many outs there were" and left the field or the like. There was certain and clear direction, and the ump later said "I told both sides we were batting the line up."

(BTW the next kid up got a single that would have scored the kid at third...and we lost 6-5 on two errors in the bottom half of the inning...not germane to the post, but that's just how the baseball gods work sometimes.)

Again, thanks for the perspective.