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The term "accidental appeal" doesn't appear in my rule book.
Under the 2002 Federation rules, a missed base or leaving too soon must be appealed. Unless the player tagging R1 verbally says "he missed second" while making the tag, then you have to treat that as a tag out and not an appeal of the missed base, thus, any runs scored on the play would count. The defensive team could make an appeal (even after the third out) any time before all infielders and the pitcher have left fair territory. At that point, you would call the runner out on appeal and take the runs off the board.
The only time I would assume that an appeal is being made without a defensive player or coach verbally stating so is when a runner obviously left too soon on a fly ball and is attempting to return to the base.
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Richard Franck
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