Appeal play

[jjskitours]

With R1 and one out, B3 hits a fly ball to right field. R1 who was stealing on the pitch believes the ball will drop in and heads for 3rd. As he gets near there, the coach screams for him to go back to first since F9 caught the fly ball. R1 turns around to go back, but before he reaches second base, F9 throws the ball to F4 who steps on second base and looks at the umpire implying that he is making an appeal. R1 having touched second base, runs back to first and stands on the bag. Is R1 out on the implied appeal or must either he or 1st base be tagged (Fed and OBR)
 

[maven]

A proper retouch appeal involves tagging the runner or the original base left too early. In this case, that's 1B. Same rule in FED (8-2-6 PENALTY) and OBR (5.09(c)(1)).

Tagging 2B is not an appeal. And there's no such thing as an "implicit" or "implied" appeal: it's either proper or improper.

For a missed base appeal, it's possible to appeal any of the missed bases, if more than one. That's not true for retouch appeals, even though R1 in this play had to "retouch" both 2B and 1B.

[noumpere]

17 hours ago, maven said:

Tagging 2B is not an appeal.

Yes it is.  It's an appeal that R1 missed second.  He didn't (I'm assuming), so R1 is ruled safe on the appeal.