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I guess the main question to the OP is "can there be such a thing as an accidental appeal?!"
While we all know that most players are unaware that they are actually making an appeal when they make a live ball appeal on a runner leaving a base early, there is still a deliberate action that accompanies the appeal in most cases, such as a throw to the base or a tag of the base/runner by the fielder.
This makes me lean toward Shipwreck's summation of the problem, however, I am open to the concept of "accidental appeal" if someone can support it by rule.
So, on the OP as written, I would probably have to go with nothing but the runner being safe as she apparently beat the appeal back to the bag.
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