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Runner reverses and dashes back toward first (she's made it to about the beginning of the running lane).
This information in the original post was key to me. It clearly places the runner in a position where she has retreated from 1B toward home.
In these other plays you guys are talking about, the runner has missed 1B and is past it, wandering in this direction or that. That situation would indeed require an appeal.
However, ASA does not require a tag for that appeal. As soon as a runner misses a base and is past it, a fielder with the ball can step on the base and appeal to the umpire, even if the runner is attempting to return to touch the missed base. (Of course OBR is totally different.)
The issue is whether, like a runner forced to 2B who retreats toward 1B and reinstates the force, a runner assumes the same liability by retreating from 1B (which is technically not a force but treated like one).
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