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The problem with reinstating the force on the BR is the batter does not "occupy" home and there are very few regulations regarding the path of a BR who overruns 1B (basically, she can go anywhere except dead ball territory as long as there is no try for 2nd).
One of the things I am amused by when I drop by the baseball boards is all of the word parsing going on. It has a distinct resemblance to theologians discussing the 11th chapter of Daniel or mystics discussing the writings of Nostradamus. IOW, they treat it a holy writ.
Fortunately, as much as we poke fun at ASA "editing" from time to time, it is much more clearly written overall than OBR.
8-7-G makes it clear that the BR is forced to 1B. We don't need to overly parse the definition's wording.
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Tom
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