Rule 8-7-C (ASA) Clarification

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by GrumpUmp

Sorry folks. I should have been more specific. I was not talking about force outs in general but the ASA rule about retreating back to the base a runner or BR was initially forced to after touching the succeeding base.

I should have specified softball organizations.

NFHS Softball Rule 2-24-4

If a forced runner, after touching the next base, retreats for any reason towards the base she had first occupied, the force play is reinstated and she may again be put out if the defense tags the base to which she is forced.

NCAA Softball

1.49 Force Play
A play in which the base runner loses her right to occupy a base because the batter becomes a batter-runner and before the batter-runner or a trailing runner has not yet been put out. When a forced runner, after touching the next base, retreats for any reason toward the base she last occupied, the force play is reinstated.