Pandoc recognizes an abbreviation and inserts a nonbreaking space (among other things, this prevents a sentence-ending space from being inserted in LaTeX output).
% pandoc -t native Mr. Bob ^D [Para [Str "Mr.\160Bob"]]
Here pandoc readjusts the softbreak so that the nonbreaking space can be inserted:
% pandoc -t native Hi Mr. Bob ^D [Para [Str "Hi",SoftBreak,Str "Mr.\160Bob"]]
If you don't want this to happen you can escape the period:
% pandoc -t native Hi Mr\. Bob ^D [Para [Str "Hi",Space,Str "Mr.",Space,Str "Bob"]]