Emaarion Boyd steals 6 bases without a hit, first minor

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP)– Emaarion Boyd ended up being the first minors player in a minimum of 20 years to steal six bases in a game without getting a hit when he managed the accomplishment for High-A Beloit (Wisconsin) against Cedar Rapids.Boyd, batting ninth and playing center field in the 10-0 win Wednesday night, reached on a fielder’s option, walk and struck by pitch. He took 2nd and 3rd base each time.Advertisement He strolled once again with none out in the ninth inning

however couldn’t steal any more bases due to the fact that a runner was in front of him.”I thought it would be even more insane if I got 8,”Boyd told The Associated Press on

Thursday.” I want I could have had two more. It would have been really crazy then.”Boyd was an 11th-round pick by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Major League Baseball amateur draft. He became part of a December trade for left-handed pitcher Jesús Luzardo that sent Boyd to the Miami Marlins.The 21-year-old has 98 steals in 203 minors games, with 83 in 187 games over the 2023 and 2024 seasons at Single-A Clearwater and High-A Jersey Shore.Advertisement”I

simply actually try to be better than the pitcher and catcher when I get on base and get a sufficient or ideal jump,” he said, “and then I use my God-given skill.”According to MLB.com,

no minor league

player because a minimum of 2005 had stolen six bases without getting a hit. Boyd also took six bases in a game for Clearwater in 2023, but he had a hit.No player has actually stolen six bases

with no hits in a big league game considering that at least 1901. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB