Re: Baseball ruling - You make the call.
I'm pretty sure you get a pinch runner to run the HR out. If he can't continue due to injury, you are allowed a PR. I heard this on some telecast this year, citing I believe Gabe Kapler injuring himself after homering.
Found this:
Instead of going home, Kapler was loaded onto a cart and taken off the field, leading to a scene so rare that an umpiring crew that included John Hirschbeck, a big-league ump for over 22 years, and Wally Bell (13 years), had never witnessed it. While Graffanino waited at second base -- he would have been out if he had passed the runner -- a pinch runner, Alejandro Machado, entered the game.
That substitution was allowed under the Official Rules of Major League Baseball 5.10 (c), which reads: ''When an accident incapacitates a player or an umpire:
(1) If an accident to a runner is such as to prevent him from proceeding to a base to which he is entitled, as on a home run hit out of the playing field . . . a substitute runner shall be permitted to complete the play."
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