Runner

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Originally posted by Rich Ives
Failure to touch a base does NOT create a "passed runner" situation. The trail runner would have to physically pass the leading runner to be out.


The run would not score.

4.09(a) EXCEPTION A run is not scored if the runner advances to home base during a play in which the third out is made 3) by a preceding runner who is declared out because he failed to touch one of the bases.

This answers the question if the preceding runner is the third out. What if the following runner touches the plate and the preceding runner THEN safely makes it back to the plate, do both runs count even though the plate was touched out of order?