[greymule]

The ump was wrong. It's only between home and 1B. Saw it called, though, in a tournament recently. R1 on 2B, R2 on 1B. Ground ball to F6, who looks to tag R1. R1 backpedals, ump calls him out, but lets play continue (another mistake). They throw to 2B for the force on R2, then throw to F5 to try to get R1 out, except that he was already called out. Batter then tries to get to 2B, and they throw there for a triple play. Offense then screamed about the backpedal out call, and the directors corrected the situation as best they could by allowing R2 to stay at 2B and allowing the other two outs.

It wasn't clear exactly what the ump's reasoning was. He claimed that R2 had run the bases in reverse order to confuse the defense. Maybe that was the closest excuse he could think of since he blew the backpedal call.