8 Stolen Bases In One Game?! Baseball Record Smashed on Saturday

June 20, 2026 ,
It's not often we'll bring you highlights and news from the minor leagues, but this one is a 'You have to see this' story. Playing for the Angels' rookie affiliate in the Dominican Summer League, 17-year-old Angels prospect Juan Cespedes set a new minor league record with 8 stolen bases in today's game. That's right. Not 1, not 2, not 3... but EIGHT stolen bases in one game.

Watch as he steals second, third & home in the first inning. And he was... ahem... off and running from there.
Cespedes is now batting .395 with a .509 on-base pct. and a .974 OPS on the season, with 25 stolen bases against just two caught stealing in only 56 plate appearances. In 13 games, he has 15 runs scored. 

He's now on pace for 93 stolen bases in the team's 56-game season.
For context, over a full 162-game major league season, Cespedes would be on pace for 243 SBs.

The legendary Rickey Henderson (RIP) holds the all-time major league record (since 1900) with 130 swipes in a season, in 1982, and he is, of course, "the greatest of all-time" when it comes to stealing bases, with his career total of 1,406. Only Lou Brock is even within 500 SBs of Henderson.

Cespedes, just 17 years old, still has a ways to go to catch Rickey.


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