Leaving the lineup

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Bad news for you Robbie, it isn't YOUR game. The game belongs to the players or when the team reports his departure.

He has left the game when he picks up his equipment and leaves the ball park. The player leaving is IRRELEVANT to the ruling in this thread.

The OP as posted had way too much going on and that makes you right about it being irrelevant.

But can we take a shot at the interesting meat of this question? Here's a new situation that addresses only the departure issue more squarely. Men's SP Team B is already playing shorthanded. Another player from Team B leaves the dugout in a) carrying his bag, in b) not carrying his bag. It's long way to the parking lot but he finally makes it there and throws his stuff in his car. He then drives out of the parking lot right past the field. At what point does the game end as a forfeit. And let's say it matters because it's the bottom of the last inning and team B has rallied to pull even and then potentially win at times appropriately intermixed with the leaving player's behavior to make the question interesting. Further, suppose the departing player does not come up to bat during the inning.