Former Lowell Spinner Jacoby Ellsbury swiped his league-leading 28th base in the third inning tonight. That’s the second-highest total by a Red Sox rookie in club history. Amby McConnell stole 31 bases 100 years ago to set the current record.
Ellsbury is now more than halfway to the club record of 54, set by Tommy Harper back in 1973. Harper is Ellsbury’s baserunning mentor.
“We’ve got to slow him down!” Harper joked earlier this evening about the threat to his 35-year-old record. “It’s not even the All-Star break yet!”