Acuña steals second base … and tries to return it

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

But throughout the Braves’ 5-4 loss to the Padres on Friday night time at Truist Park, he took it just a little bit past what we’re accustomed to.

In the fifth inning, the outfielder reached first base on a fielder’s alternative 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.

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

“I thought he was just going to score with it in his hands,” Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies mentioned.

Despite 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 once they drove to work in the present day.

It is refreshing to seek out at the very least one factor on a baseball area that Acuña cannot do.