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A couple of notes not yet mentioned.
First - proper ruling on this would (even in retrospect) put the BR back on first! Why? Proper timing of the LBR would be "immediately" after BR reached first base. Immediately is generally about 1 or 1 1/2 seconds. No BR could get from 1st to 2nd in the amount of time generally allowed for "immediately". LBR is an immediate dead ball, and BR would have been short of 2nd at that time. Send her back.
Second - the defense is not "enacting" the rule or "freezing" the runner by it's actions. The offense's contention is not only incorrect, but the logic leading up to it is inaccurate. It the actions of the OFFENSE (coupled with INaction on the defense's part) that enact the LBR on each individual runner. The action that precipitated the LBR was the runner's failure to move in one direction or the other. If the original PU would have been thinking of LBR in these terms, I suspect he'd have made the right call on the spot.
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