Stolen base ineptness

A couple stats relating to stolen bases, more accurately about caught stealing actually.

In his rookie season in 1986, Robby Thompson of the San Francisco Giants stole 12 bases while getting caught 15 times. That's not very good. But the unique event in his season took place on June 27, 1986 in a win over Cincinnati.

In that game, Robby became the only player thusfar* to get caught stealing four times without successfully stealing a single base. Robby's 0-4 base stealing line from that game stands as a one-time-only event in baseball history.*

Robby reached base four times going 3-5 that game, reaching once on a strikeout wild pitch. Four times on base, four times caught stealing. All from a guy who only had 12 on the entire season.

Now, as far as an entire season of stolen base ineptness, in 1952 Pete Runnels became the only player ever to get caught stealing ten times in a single season without successfully stealing a single base. 0-10 on the season in base stealing.

Why was this guy running? He stole 37 bases in 14 seasons (none in 1952) while getting caught stealing 51 times.

So there you go. Congrats to both Pete Runnels and Robby Thompson for achieving a that's-the-only-time-it's-ever-happened!