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Originally posted by jggilliam
...so first baseman tags runner coming back to bag.
...if R3 was to cross the plate before R1 is tagged, would the run count?
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Tagging the runner or tagging the base on this play would make no difference to the status of the runner from third. Either way, it is a
timing play as others have mentioned.
This is an appeal that the runner left early on a caught fly ball. It is
not a force play.