Runner must touch base?

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Originally Posted by SAump

But allowing the runner to run off the baseline and to apply no penalty on the runner when he should touch the next base, should matter.

This is the crux of your problem. You believe it should matter, but the rules do not support your belief. Rather than re-examine your belief, you look for whatever evidence can be read out of context or otherwise twisted to support that belief. There's a name for that.