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Speaking FED:
See 8-4-g(2) "When the ball becomes dead, no runner may return to touch a missed base or a base left too soon if she has advanced, touched and remains a base beyond the missed base or the base left too soon. A runner shall not be declared out if a fielder deliberately carries or throws the ball into dead-ball territory to prevent that runner from returning to a missed base or a base left too soon. "
In your sitch the BR is awarded home. If she has reached 3rd when the ball goes dead, she may not return and touch second. If the defense appeals she is then called out. She is out even if she has returned to, and touched second, because the above rule prevented that return from being recognized.
You are nor "overruling yourself", you are mearly administring the rules. The mechanic I would use is to declare the ball dead, point the BR to home, and then as soon as she completed her baserunning responsibity, recognize the appeal and declare her out.
Roger Greene
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