Intentional, or not intentional?

[Dholloway1962]

Originally Posted by Al

Not wanting to be doubled up the runner holds to her base. The first baseman drops the ball, runs to tag 1st for the out, then throws to 2nd and gets a tag out there.

R1 held her base then F3 tags 1B...Force is off. Why did R1 leave?? She was out of jeopardy of being tagged or forced out.

[Al]

Originally Posted by Dholloway1962

R1 held her base then F3 tags 1B...Force is off. Why did R1 leave?? She was out of jeopardy of being tagged or forced out.

Dholloway,

I didn't mean R1 held her base until F3 got the force out at 1st and then she took off for 2nd. What I meant was R1 held her base until she saw the ball came rolling out of F3's glove. (If she stayed on 1st F3 would have tagged her out first and then stepped on 1st base for a double play). The double play that actually accured was made possible because the BR was not running full speed (until she saw the ball dropped), which gave the fielder time to get the force out at 1st. She then made a great throw to 2nd and R1 was tagged out. There was one guy yelling, (make the call blue, make the call), but no call was made. IMO, the defense got away with one. ...Al