O's Lodge Protest Over Runners Passing Rule Application

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Baltimore filed the first protest of the 2018 season Friday night after umpires declined to rule a double play on an odd rundown play during the Orioles-Yankees game that saw New York's lead runner, Giancarlo Stanton, retreat past third base and into left field as teammate and trail baserunner Gary...

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3 hours ago, Gil said:

Baltimore filed the first protest of the 2018 season Friday night after umpires declined to rule a double play on an odd rundown play during the Orioles-Yankees game that saw New York's lead runner, Giancarlo Stanton, retreat past third base and into left field as teammate and trail baserunner Gary...

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It says as soon as the lead runner passes the bag running down the left field foul line, the succeeding runner standing on the bag is automatically out for passing the lead runner, so the succeeding runner standing on the base did not even have to be tagged as he was out anyway for passing a preceding runner.

At what point does the lead runner technically pass the bag going down the left field line? Both feet on the ground past the bag running down the line, or the back foot in the air breaking the plane of the back edge of third base?

When did abandonment come in to play, and did the original lead runner even need to be tagged at all, or should he have just been called out for abandonment with no tag being needed at all, just like no tag needed for running out of the  base line?