Last month's interleague series between the Cubs and White Sox featured 33 runs, 65 hits, 11 home runs, two triples, 11 doubles, seven hit batsmen, three errors and six stolen bases.
Six stolen bases amounts to 1 1/2 per game over a four-game series, and move over, Rickey Henderson — by today's standards, that's blatant thievery. Baseballs may be flying out of ballparks at an unprecedented rate this season, but runners remain rooted to their bases like grounded adolescents to their bedrooms: As of Sunday, major-league teams were averaging slightly more than half a stolen base per game.