The opponents of the Texas Rangers stole 24 bases in a row without being caught.
Backstory: The string of 24 straight successful steal attempts against them during a late-season streak underscored perhaps the greatest vulnerability for Texas in advancing to a third straight World Series. The Rangers not only fail to discourage base-stealers, they haven’t been good in stealing bases themselves.
The Rangers have only succeeded in throwing out about 20 percent of the runners who try stealing against them, one of the worst success rates in the majors. Meanwhile they’ve stolen about 50 fewer bases this year than in 2011 and were caught a higher percentage of the time.
The defensive weakness is a far cry from when Ivan Rodriguez, one of the finest defensive catchers of all-time, was a fixture for the Rangers from 1991 to 2002. He ended his career with the best caught-stealing percentage of any major-leaguer catcher with 45.68 percent success rate. While the current Texas backstops are no I-Rods, they haven’t gotten much help from the Ranger pitchers, who aren't good when it comes to holding runners on base.