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Originally Posted by cbfoulds
7.01 casebook comment. If a runner legally acquires title to a base, and the pitcher assumes his pitching position the runner may not return to a previously occupied base.
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Good point, hadn't been thinking of that one, which, in my defense, is inaposite to the original sitch. Also, see:
7.08(i)
... If a runner touches an unoccupied base and then thinks the ball was caught or is decoyed into returning to the base he last touched, he may be put out running back to that base, but if he reaches the previously occupied base safely he cannot be put out while in contact with that base.
[my emphasis]