LogFAQs > #905664854

Weird play in the mets game today. Whatever the rule actually is, I don't think it was handled properly.
Bases loaded 2 outs for Padres. RBI single scores Padre on 3rd. runner on 2nd comes around to try to score, is forced out at home. during the process of the throw/tag, the runner who went first to second, starts running from 2nd to 3rd but slows down when he sees the out call. Even though there were now 3 outs, the catcher throws to 3rd and tags the runner.

That 2nd run at home is challenged and overturned, properly so. So 2 runs in.
But the runner who went first to third and slowed down after the out, was ruled out. Isn't this weird? And potentially dangerous? If the play is "dead" by 3rd out, shouldnt umpires use their judgement to say "no he should go back to second. He may not have gone to third, and definitely wouldnt have slowed down and allowed himself to be tagged". It seems ridiculous to me that you can get called out because of decisions made becuase the umpire called a 3rd out, and players gave up thinking the inning was over. What are y'all thoughts?

On that note, don't you also think umpires should be micced, a la football, so they can explain to what was likely literally everyone in the crowd, that had no idea what was going on without a TV announcer? And this way the umpires can explain the justification in calling the runner out vs putting him back on 2nd?
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