It simply makes no sense to concern yourself with a meaningless runner that runner is not always meaningless though. In the texas game a player stole second to get into scoring positon. The next batter singled and scored the guy from second to tie the game. Thats not meaningless because the runner never would have scored from first on that hit. I personally don't like that rule, it should be a stolen base to me. He was on first, now he is on second, he took that base. It shouldn't matter if one team cared or not. Either way, he still took that base. and sometimes, taking that base can lead to a win, like the texas game.