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Situation: Runners on 1st and 3rd, one out. Batter hits a fly ball to right field. The right fielder catches the ball (2nd out). The runner on 3rd tags, and scores. After this run scores, the runner is doubled off first base (3rd out). The umpire says the run does NOT count. Is this the correct call?

I want to say its the right call, but I remember some bizarre play in MLB a few years ago, where runners were on 2nd and 3rd with one out, and the runner on 3rd just ran home (no tag). The runner was doubled off at 2nd, and the run counted. Had the runner at 3rd been doubled off, the run would not have counted.
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MLB rules:

7.12
Unless two are out, the status of a following runner is not affected by a preceding runner's failure to touch or retouch a base. If, upon appeal, the preceding runner is the third out, no runners following him shall score. If such third out is the result of a force play, neither preceding nor following runners shall score.

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