Ellsbury Vs. Crawford: A Base Stealer's Dream Series

Tonight begins a quick two game set between Jacoby Ellsbury and the Boston Red Sox and his steals rival, Carl Crawford and the Tampa Bay Rays. Just for fun, don't forget that the Rays also includes x-factor B.J. Upton and Jason Bartlett whom have 33 and 20 steals respectively. All season long I've been doing a series on base stealing in baseball and hopefully its relevance in bringing back the threat. You can check out my latest piece here which includes all the links to my earlier writings by month. Apparently my latest article possibly provided some inspiration for a recent Red Sox Notebook portion of the Boston Herald. You be the judge.   Going in to the series, I was thinking that if Ellsbury and Crawford stole two bases each the entire series that would be a good goal until they next meet Sep. 1-3 in Tampa. However, with two steals already tonight through the first three innings plus, Crawford has already surpassed my goal meanwhile giving him a league-hi...