Acuña steals second base … and tries to return it

The sky is blue, water is moist and Ronald Acuña Jr. performs laborious. You did not want to listen to any of that from us.

However in the course of the Braves’ 5-4 loss to the Padres on Friday evening at Truist Park, he took it somewhat bit past what we’re accustomed to.

Within the fifth inning, the outfielder reached first base on a fielder’s selection after which stole second. It was, for all intents and functions, a routine sequence. It simply ended up being a sequence that ended with Acuña knocking the second base bag out of the bottom, elevating questions on whether or not a runner is technically secure if he is carrying the bottom.

Whereas it would not actually be truthful to Acuña to name it a literal steal of second base, clearly, we had been all considering it.

“I assumed he was simply going to attain with it in his palms,” Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies mentioned.

Regardless of his finest efforts — and even with the added perspective of Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts — a member of the Truist Park grounds crew needed to be summoned to reinstall the bottom, which, virtually assuredly, was not what that they had been anticipating after they drove to work right this moment.

It’s refreshing to seek out at the least one factor on a baseball subject that Acuña cannot do.