Isiah Kiner-Falefa • Boston Red Sox
Isiah Kiner-Falefa went 0-for-3 and was booed after failing to run out a grounder against the Brewers on Tuesday.
It’s unclear exactly what happened on IKF’s chopper down the third base line in the seventh. If he felt the ball go off his foot, he made no attempt to argue the point. Had he ran right away, it might have been a tough play for Luis Rengifo. Kiner-Falefa is now 0-for-7 this season. It made some sense for the Red Sox to sign him as infield insurance, but the problem there is that there’s just no reason at all for the club to play him while everyone is healthy. Even if it makes sense to sit Marcelo Mayer against lefties, Andruw Monasterio is much better equipped than IKF to help as a platoon guy.