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OBR 7.08(j): Any runner is out when he fails to return at once to first base after overrunning or oversliding that base. If he attempts to run to second he is out when tagged. If, after overrunning or oversliding first base he starts toward the dugout, or toward his position, and fails to return to first base at once, he is out, on appeal, when he or the base is tagged.
Question: Under OBR rules could a runner that makes only a head feint towards second base be judged by the umpire as now being in jeopardy of being tagged out? If not, do additional physical "feinting" mechanisms have to be put into effect by the runner to be in jeopardy? If a runner cannot be tagged out for feinting towards second base then at what point is he considered to be "attempts to run" as noted in the rule?
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