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Originally Posted by Hankphenom

This. Muncy was a good 20 feet off the bag, the runner about five. Where was the coach, what in the world was he doing? That's the tying run, get him as close as you can in case of a wild pitch, passed ball, or slow grounder to the infield!

"Kiner-Falefa, to his credit, spoke about the play after the game and explained exactly what went wrong. "They told us to stay close to the base," Kiner-Falefa said, per Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet. "They don't want us to get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive. Varsho hits the ball really, really hard. (Max Muncy's) right there. I'm waiting for a backpick from (catcher) Will Smith in that situation. "It was obviously a tough play. They got it done. The lead is small. In that situation, you can't get doubled off. I got the best secondary lead I could, and it didn't work out."

"Upon rewatching, however, it looked as though it took Kiner-Falefa a few steps to get into high gear, and he even peeked over his left shoulder a bit to gauge where the grounder was hit in relation to Rojas."