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I spoke to a friend of mine on the phone today regarding this rule. He is a very good umpire with College World Series experience who is also well versed in NF rules. I respect his interpretation.
His take was this. Any time you have a PLAY at a base you need to make a call. If the fielder did not touch the base on a force, or the fielder missed the tag on a tag play, you HAVE to signal safe even if the runner missed the base. Only have a "no signal" if there is no PLAY on the runner.
He also said that his information on the "revised" NF case was that the "accidental appeal" was back in.
Just relaying what he told me.
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