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Old Wed Apr 30, 2008, 10:58pm
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Here's the NCAA rule 8-5j
SECTION 5. A runner is out when:
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j. The individual fails to reach the next base before a fielder tags the runner or the base after the runner has been forced to advance because the batter became a runner;
Exception—No runner can be forced out if a runner who follows in the batting order is put out first. However, if a runner is put out during live action, it does not remove the force on any runners who might subsequently be declared out for a running infraction.
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The BRD doesn't include the first sentence of the rule, and that omission allows a much stronger reading of the second sentence than I believe was intended by the NCAA.

Perhaps I just don't understand CC's point, but to me it looks like a 3 codes are effectively the same: if a runner misses a base while he is still forced, it remains a force out even though the appeal comes later.
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