Swihart not ready for rehab assignment

BOSTON — The Red Sox had hoped to get Blake Swihart on a Minor League rehab assignment by this weekend, but those plans have been scrapped. The left fielder has felt some recurring soreness in his left ankle as the activity increased.

“And as he’s ramped up the intensity and the different cuts, his ankle is starting to talk back to him here,” said Red Sox manager John Farrell. “It’s much like it was when he first started to initiate some movement. Then he got into a pretty good stretch where he was making good gains on it. But as that intensity has picked up, he’s going through a phase now where he’s got to quiet some things down.”

Swihart severely sprained his left ankle on June 4, when his foot got caught in the base of the side wall in the left-field corner.

It’s doubtful Swihart will be able to catch for the rest of the season, but the Red Sox feel he can recover enough to return to left field, where …

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