All of you struggling with whether the force is reinstated because the runner may not have been intending to go back to 1B, comment on the part of the rule I have emphasized below (ASA)
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Section 7. THE RUNNER IS OUT.
C. When, on a force play, a fielder contacts the base while holding the ball, or tags the runner before the runner reaches the base. If the forced runner, after touching the next base, retreats for any reason towards the base first occupied, the force play is reinstated and the runner may again be put out if the defense tags the runner or the base to which the runner is forced.
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