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Originally posted by SC Ump
If your association doesn't consider a stop 3/4's of the way to second with the runner then returning to first as being "running the bases in reverse order to make a travesty of the game", then cool beans with me.
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First, this rule does not say it is illegal to run the bases in reverse order. Otherwise, any runner caught in a rundown would be immediately out.
The key phrase here is "to make a travesty of the game."
Would your runner above be guilty of that? Well, maybe, but not just because the runner went more than 2 (or 3 or 4 or 5 or pick your arbitrary number) of steps from 1st base.
It would be because s/he was engaging in some kind of taunting - daring an unskilled defense to try to throw her out, etc.
Example: batter hits a home run. Runs all the way to 3/4 between 3rd and home, and then decides to reverse and run the bases in reverse order.
That is making a travesty of the game.
Merely taking a step (or 5) "too far" (according to your opinion) is not.