Greenmonsters
Wannabe Duck Boat Owner
If you're going to introduce a new play, please do so in a new thread. That's been requested many times. Changing the scenario causes confusion, introduces inaccurate/irrelevant information, causes problems and causes a thread to go in perpetuity.
All of the situations in the rules book about the batter-runner and the pitcher are designed to cover the possibilities, generally speaking, when the ball is returned to the pitcher and then the batter-runner reaches 1st base. Overrunning and coming back before the pitcher even has the ball is treated like any other situation.
Please provide association-specific references and citations.
And really, aren't we more concerned about situations when the ball has been returned to the pitcher AFTER the batter-runner has reached base?!