Out or NOT?

[layers73]

Loaded bases -  3-0 count on Batter. (outs do not seem to matter)

Next pitch is ball 4. 

 

Batter drops bad and heads for first Runner on 3rd base jogs towards home and picks up bat, but never touches home plate.

Before enterning the dugout his temmates remind the runner to TOUCH HOME!   Before runner can return to touch home, the catcher tags the him saying he missed the plate.

 

Is he out for misisng home....?

or is he able to return to touch it  - since he was entiled to home without any risk of being put out and he had not yet entered the dugout......

 

 

[Replacematt]

He is out for a valid appeal of missing home. Once you reach an awarded base and miss it, you are in jeopardy of being put out on appeal.

[layers73]

thank you!

[JaxRolo]

He is out for a valid appeal of missing home. Once you reach an awarded base and miss it, you are in jeopardy of being put out on appeal.

I agree but he never actually reached home plate. or did he?

[grayhawk]

 

He is out for a valid appeal of missing home. Once you reach an awarded base and miss it, you are in jeopardy of being put out on appeal.

I agree but he never actually reached home plate. or did he?

 

 

It's a valid point.  If the bat was on the 3B side, and the offense's dugout was on the 3B side, then it's likely that R3 never reached the plate.  In this case, the runner may be called out for abandoning his effort to touch the next base (7.08 ( a ) (2)):

 

From the comment:

 

Any runner after reaching first base who leaves the base path heading for his dugout or his position believing that there is no further play, may be declared out if the umpire judges the act of the runner to be considered abandoning his efforts to run the bases. Even though an out is called, the ball remains in play in regard to any other runner.