Strange interference

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If you will recheck my orginal posting I stated R1 turned and retreated to 1st(continue running)after F6 tags 2nd on the grounder R1 ends up about a step away directly in front of F3 trying to catch the throw while B/R is coming down the 1st base line

It was a strange looking play and dont remember in over the 1000 some games I have called in the last 3years a similiar play to it.
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Actually, Don, this is also what was stated in the original post

..R1 decides to for some reason turn and run back to 1st after seeing he was going to be put out at 2nd.

And I, probably along with a few others, read this as R1 turned and retreated before F6 actually tagged the base.

Even in the Fed rules that Roger noted, even when running in reverse order, it must still be determined by the umpire that it was done to confuse the defense. That is still something which must be deemed intentional.