The reference is really easy. It is the definition of a force play
OBR 2.0 A FORCE PLAY is a play in which a runner legally loses his right to occupy a base by reason of the batter becoming a runner.
The subject of the above defintion is a runner. Not the batter/runner. A force play is one in which the runners lose their right to their base because the batter gains the right to occupy first base, setting off the whole chain reaction that we know as the "force play"
The batter is the reason a force play happens, but he is not forced, he is just entitled to 1st base, thus forcing other runners.
Hence the play at first is not a force out, it is a put out.
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Originally posted by Prince
Batter-runner to 1B is a force play. You state that "By Rule" this is not a force. Please provide an OBR reference.
Jaska/Roder, Chapter 6, says "A. Any runner (including the batter-runner) is out when (2) he is forced out...It is a force out when a forced runner fails to touch (or pass) his advance base...before hts person or the base is tagged..."
The force is reinstated on the batter-runner at 1B if he retreats towards home. Refer to OBR 7.08(e) "...However, if the forced runner, after touching the next base, retreats for any reason towards the base he had last occupied, the force play is reinstated, and he can again be put out if the defense tags the base to which he is forced;"
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