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Originally Posted by youngump
I agree with your conclusion, but not how you got there. This is definitely running the bases backward, she went to the last numbered base first and if it had been a double, she would have run to second. But the rule says that she has to be running them backward to confuse the defense or make a travesty of the game and I think it's pretty clear she did it because she was confused.
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If she had run to 2nd after third, I could more easily see this as running the bases backward.
However, going from the batter's box to third is not going backward ... it's just going to third. She wasn't "on" home... she was just near it.