Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz leads the majors in stolen bases, simply as he has many of the 12 months. He had really been going by means of a stolen base drought these days. He hadn’t swiped a bag since Aug. 8 heading into Wednesday’s motion.
De La Cruz ended the drought and joined some esteemed firm with this stolen base Wednesday in Toronto:
That was the sixtieth stolen base of the season. De La Cruz additionally has 21 homers, so he is within the 20-60 membership. It isn’t as effectively often called, say, the 40-40 membership, however it’s fairly unique and has some main names in it.
Listed here are the gamers to hit 20 homers and steal 60 bases in the identical season:
- Elly De La Cruz, 2024
- Ronald Acuña Jr., 2023
- Rickey Henderson, 1990
- Eric Davis, 1987
- Rickey Henderson, 1986
- Rickey Henderson, 1985
- Joe Morgan, 1976
- Joe Morgan, 1973
Some very attention-grabbing notes on there. First off, De La Cruz makes this the fourth day trip of eight complete it was a Reds participant whereas three of the 5 gamers on listed here are Reds. Secondly, there are three MVPs on right here in Morgan (’76), Henderson (’90) and Acuña. And, after all, 5 of the eight seasons on right here had been achieved by Corridor of Famers.
De La Cruz is simply 22 years previous and it is solely Aug. 21. Although he is fallen behind his earlier tempo because of the aforementioned drought, he nonetheless has an out of doors shot to get to 80 steals. That hasn’t occurred since 1988, when Henderson and Vince Coleman received there.
