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Oddly enough, under FED rules, in the original situation you describe (i.e., the runner is beyond his advance base at the time the ball becomes dead) the runner who left early would be declared out on execution of a properly constituted appeal by the defense.
JM
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Unless in the umpires judgement the fielder Deliberately threw the ball into DBT to prevent the runner from correcting his base running error.
Pete Booth