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No one on. Batter hits a routine popup to the shortstop, out of frustration he jogs down 1st base line carrying the bat. The shortstop ends up dropping the ball and now the batter runner drops the bat halfway up the line and takes off sprinting to 1st. He reaches 1st base safely with no play. The next part is just crazy. The batter runner now who is standing on 1st decides to come off the base and starts running down 1st base line to pick up his bat, he didn't ask for time and of course the umpires didn't call time. The pitcher now sees this and throws to the 1st baseman and he tags the BAG ONLY. The base umpire calls the runner out. Is this correct? or does he have to tag the runner or does the umpire call runner out for abandoning his effort?
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