Padres Lose Run as Rougned Odor Called Out for Missing Home Plate Despite His Return to Touch It

San Diego lost a 4th inning run against Atlanta when Padres runner Rougned Odor's run was wiped off the board on appeal, HP Umpire Chad Fairchild ruling that Odor failed to touch home plate...despite Odor returning to touch it after initially missing it. Why is that? Article: www.closecalls...
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During Padres batter Trent Grisham's infield ground ball with runners on second and third (R2 Ha-Seong Kim on second base and R3 Rougned Odor on third base), Odor broke for the plate, drawing a throw from Braves first baseman Matt Olson. The throw bounced past catcher Travis d'Arnaud's mitt, as Odor passed home plate-without touching it.
The wild throw to the backstop screen allowed trailing runner R2 Kim to jog in to score, and after Kim stepped on home plate, Odor returned to step on the plate himself to try and correct the baserunning error in missing it the first time by.
After the play, the Braves appealed that Odor failed to touch home plate (despite Odor touching the plate eventually) and HP Umpire Fairchild affirmed the appeal, ruling Odor out for missing a base and taking a run off the board for San Diego.
Official Baseball Rule 5.09(c)(2) governs appeals for missing a base and has this approved ruling: "No runner may return to touch a missed base after a following runner has scored."
It's simple: Odor missed home plate the first time by, then trailing runner Kim touched home plate/scored, and then Odor returned to touch home plate. By rule, this is invalid and Odor thus is considered not to have touched home plate at all, meaning the appeal is affirmed and Odor is out.
This is a different rule than runners passing-so don't compare the two since it is a false equivalence. Runners passing is NOT an appeal play (the defense doesn't even have to tag the runner!). Instead, runners passing is a call the umpire makes on their own as soon as the infraction occurs. This is not runners passing as Odor is considered to have scored UNTIL and UNLESS the defense appeals that he failed to touch his base.