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Originally Posted by teebob21

Ergo, a BR is out for INT when the BR increases his or her distance from 1B in an attempt to avoid or delay a tag. Intent not required.

This is wrong. If it were right then the batter runner couldn't try to go AROUND a tag. The rule is about getting CLOSER to home plate. I started to rewrite what you said that way but it doesn't work either. Because one decreases one's distance from home plate by moving parallel to the third base line toward the first base line. I think the mathematical answer is that retreating toward home occurs when the perpendicular distance of the runner to the third base line decreases.