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Originally Posted by WestMichBlue
If a put-out at 1B is NOT a force play, the we simply have a runner off the base and she needs to be tagged with the ball. Which she was not. So is B-R safe?
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Not necessarily so. The force is reinstated when the runner retreats toward the base previously occupied (Rule 1-Definitions, Force Out).
Therefore, BY THE WORDING OF THE RULE, this cannot apply since the former BR never "occupied" home.
