MIAMI — J.T. Realmuto had no idea that he’d recorded a career milestone when he gunned down Maximo Acosta trying to steal third base in the bottom of the seventh inning on Saturday, so he appreciated that Phillies manager Rob Thomson flagged down the baseball after the play.
With his 84.7 mph strike to third baseman Alec Bohm, who successfully tagged Acosta for the second out of the inning, the Phillies catcher caught his second runner stealing of the game and the 200th of his career (not including pickoffs and other putouts that didn’t include Realmuto actually throwing out a would-be stealer).