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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
Perhaps you've got a different 8.2.5A than I have. Mine states:
RULING: a runner may not return to a base that he left to soon on a caught fly ball if he was on or beyond a succeeding base when the ball became dead... Upon proper appeal, R1 Shall be called out. If no proper appeal is made by the defense, R1 will be awarded third base. (play involved R1 leaving 1st before the catch was made and being between 2nd and 3rd when the ball is thrown out of play ==> 1st plus 2 bases for the overthrow is ... awarded 3rd.)
I don't see any way that I'm going to let the offense walk backwards around the bases during a dead ball.
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Read it as "...may not legally return ..." -- that's why he's still out on appeal.