baserunning

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Originally Posted by ontheway

Situation: Runner leaves first on a fly ball to center field, tags second but left 1b to early has to go back.He does not retouch 2b on his way back to 1b and is called out. If the runner did not legally get to second in the first place why does he have to retouch?

I think the rules have something to do with it.

OBR 7.02 In advancing, a runner shall touch first, second, third and home base in order. If forced to return, he shall retouch all bases in reverse order, unless the ball is dead under any provision of Rule 5.09. In such cases, the runner may go directly to his original base.