[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Huck

"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."

Doesn't explain why he slowed himself down by sliding into home plate. Overrunning home plate isn't a problem.