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Thanks for the patient feedback to my confusion!

I have searched our ruleset (Softball Canada) more carefully and found the following confirmation under the rule for scoring of runs:

Quote:

Rule 5-8b. A run shall not be scored if the last out of the inning is a result of:

1) The batter-runner being put out before legally touching first base.
2) A runer is forced out (including on an appeal play) due to the batter becoming a batter-runner.

I had always missed the phrase "including on an appeal play" in sub-article 2, and checking the total of 10 types of appeals (11 in slo-pitch), none of them could have anything to do with a force EXCEPT appealing a runner for missing a base. So such an appeal CAN be a force. . .though an appeal on the BR for missing 1B is technically not a force and is covered in sub-article 1.

Thanks again for helping me learn something that I had completely overlooked before.

Rule 8
Sec.9 THE RUNNER IS OUT
EFFECT – Sec.9g-j
(…)
4. Additional out appeals may be made after the third out as long as they are made properly and are made to remove a run, or made to reinstate the correct batting order.

This is (part) of the rule in ISF Rulebook.
According to my opinion it is formulated well as long as it leave a wide range of possibilities...

Referring to the OP... well, I still have BR out and a tie => go to extra-inning...
Did I misunderstand something? :confused:

Thanks