Double first base, appealing

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by youngump

A runner using only the white portion of first base has not missed first base. He has touched first base. If called out on appeal, he's being called out for using only the white portion of first base while a play was being made not for missing the base.

That's exactly where my mindset was.

Suppose that an umpire you were working with, insisted that an appeal be honored after a pitch for this violation and you wanted to show him in the rule book where that was wrong. You could go to the rules supplement where it's clear. But can you find a rule?

Actually, I believe I cited that very rule in the fourth post of this thread.