Detachable base ruling and over thrown ball

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by UmpireErnie

This misconception persists because most of the time it looks like to the casual bystander that one base is what we are awarding. They are incorrectly assuming that the batter-runner already had the first base and indeed she usually does by the time the ball goes out of play. But that first base is part of the two bases being awarded.

It also persists since that is how the USSSA rule book reads (or, at least, used to read).