Brewers shatter 33-year-old team record by stealing 9 bases, 6 in 1st inning

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers believe their aggressiveness on the basepaths is part of their identity.

Never was it more apparent than on Sunday.

Milwaukee stole nine bases in a 14-1 victory over the Athletics to break the team’s 33-year-old record for steals in a game.

All of them came in the first four innings. Six were swiped in the first, the first time in the expansion era a team stole that many bases in an inning.

“That’s the game we play,” said Brice Turang, who had three of the steals to increase his season total to eight. “So we’ve just got to keep playing it.”

According to Elias Sports Bureau, no team had stolen as many as six bases in one inning since the expansion era started in 1961. A team has stolen five bases in an inning 13 times since 1961, most recently by Cincinnati against Colorado on April 19, 2016.

Sportradar said the Brewers were the first team to steal six bases in an inning since Aug. 26, 1919, when the New York Giants had six steals in the third inning of the first game of a doubleheader against Pittsburgh.