Venezuelan Ronald Acuña Jr. reaches 40 stolen bases and makes Major League history before the All-Star Game [Video]

The Venezuelan Ronald Acuña is living his best season in the Major Leagues with the Atlanta Braves, establishing numbers that do not stop surprising his own and strangers, the same ones that this Monday led him to make history with three implanted brands, all this, before the Game of stars.

And it is that in the meeting tonight, the first of a series of three before the Cleveland Guardians, Acuña Jr. stole a base in the third inning to become the first player in MLB history with 40 or more stolen bases, 20 or more home runs and 50 or more RBI before the Midseason Classic.

If we think this is already impressive enough, keep in mind that the All-Star Game does not always punctually mark the middle of the season, so if we take the outfielder’s numbers to the number of games that mark the middle of the season which is 84, we have that he is the first to achieve at least 40 stolen bases, 20 home runs and 50 RBIs.

In fact, the closest they have come to these marks during the first 84 commitments, they can hardly boast of stealing at least 40 bases and hitting 10 home runs, and these are: Rickey Henderson in the years 1985, 1986 and 1990; Eric Davis in 1986 and Kenny Lofton 1994.

Braves have a scare with Ronald Acuña Jr.

But in the middle of a historic day, Ronald Acuña also caused some concern in the Braves since, at the moment he stole the base, he had a spectacular arrival in which he ended up injuring his arm.

However, everything was scared because the outfielder stayed in the game and let it be known that he was fine after scoring runs with a drive from his friend, second baseman Ozzie Albies.

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