ARLINGTON, Texas -- In 1921, George Herman Ruth, better known as Babe, drew a walk and stole two bases in the fifth inning of a World Series game. In 2020, Markus Lynn Betts, better known as Mookie, drew a walk and stole two bases in the fifth inning of a World Series game. Over the 99 years, hundreds of games and thousands of innings between these events, nobody had managed the same feat in a World Series game.
That it happened to be Ruth who last mustered the deed is an inspired bit of baseball whimsy considering the other tie that binds him to Betts.