How do the pros judge missed bases?

n his second illustrative play, showing when a force might be removed by the runner’s action, Bremigan wrote:

He missed the base, but he beat the play. So he is safe. If the runner is laying on the ground near second base, or is making an effort to get back to second, he must be tagged to be put out. That is to say it is not sufficient for the second baseman to stand on second with the ball and holler for an appeal with the runner just past second base or diving back into the bag. We apply here the same reasoning applied to a runner who misses home plate (7.10d).

"We apply here the same reasoning applied to a runner who misses home plate (7.10d)." Those words have reverberated around the Internet for quite a while now. They have even found their way into the editor’s own Baseball Rules Differences as an official BUD interpretation, and rightly so. But what do they mean?

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