{"id":861731,"date":"2026-09-26T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:46:12","slug":"elly-de-la-cruz-captures-30-30-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861731\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz captures 30\/30 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run double in the third inning of Friday\u2019s game at Toronto, then promptly stole third base on Jos\u00e9 Soriano\u2019s next pitch to become the fourth Cincinnati player with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a single season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really special,\u201d De La Cruz said after the Reds lost 6-5 to the Blue Jays<\/a>. \u201cThat means a great season. I know, as a group, the season didn\u2019t go the way we wanted it to, but it\u2019s a great season individually.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-time All-Star shortstop hit his 30th home run in Thursday\u2019s 7-6 win<\/a> at Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 74-86 with two games remaining<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hit for power and have speed and be able to steal bases like that, it\u2019s a pretty special thing to do, and it\u2019s a great accomplishment,\u201d said Reds assistant bench coach Mike Napoli, who ran the team Friday under manager Terry Francona’s supervision.<\/p>\n

Eric Davis was the first Reds player with a 30-30 season, hitting 37 homers and stealing 50 bases in 1987. Barry Larkin had 33 homers and 36 steals in 1996, and Brandon Phillips had 30 homers and 32 steals in 2007.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old De La Cruz has nine homers, 19 RBIs and six stolen bases in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still really young,\u201d Napoli said. \u201cHe\u2019s still developing, he\u2019s getting better. He\u2019s hungry to get better, You would expect him to be that superstar. He\u2019s gotten better every single year and we expect him to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

De La Cruz also became the first Reds player and eighth big leaguer since 1900 with at least 30 steals in each of his first four seasons. Kansas City\u2019s Bobby Witt also did it from 2022-25.<\/p>\n

De La Cruz grounded out in his first at bat Friday, when Soriano made a between-the-legs stop on his 94 mph one-hopper to the mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run double in the third inning of Friday\u2019s game at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,15056,363,3,6454,100813,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-861731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}