Acuna Hits 200th HR, Fastest to 200-200

Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning Wednesday to become the fastest player in major league history to reach 200 home runs and 200 stolen bases, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 9-0 at Nationals Park, per ESPN and the Associated Press. MLB.com tagged the milestone at 904 career games.

Acuna already owned the 200-steal side of the ledger. The 200th homer was the missing half, and he delivered it with Atlanta already rolling after Sean Murphy's three-run shot in the sixth. A midweek matinee turned into a record-book afternoon in under three hours of game time.

The swing that locked history

Acuna finished 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBI. His three-run blast to left-center scored Ha-Seong Kim and Drake Baldwin and made it 6-0, per the ESPN scoring summary. Murphy had opened the floodgates an inning earlier with a three-run homer that scored Acuna and Michael Harris II. Austin Riley added a two-run single in the eighth, and Murphy drove in another in the ninth as Atlanta piled up 11 hits and walked six times.

Washington managed two hits. Atlanta's pitching line after Grant Holmes' early zeros never let the Nats breathe, with Daysbel Hernandez earning the win in relief work that followed Holmes and Dylan Dodd. The Braves improved to 83-57 and kept sitting atop the NL East while Washington fell to 67-75 in front of 15,248 at Nationals Park.

Why 200-200 hits different

Power-speed unicorns get talked about every September. Actually posting 200 homers and 200 steals in 904 games is a different category. Acuna has already rewritten Braves record books on the bases and kept producing after the ACL tear that cost him most of 2024. Wednesday was the stamp that puts both numbers on the same line in the record book, with a stolen base in the same game for good measure per the CBS box.

For other recent MLB fireworks on Smacktok, see Randy Arozarena's three-run shot in Boston and the Twins' 15-2 romp. Acuna's version was quieter in the early innings and louder in the seventh, when one swing turned a shutout into a career milestone. Nine runs, zero answers from Washington, and a Braves star writing his name next to a pace no one else has matched. September baseball loves milestones that travel. This one will follow Acuna into every park left on the schedule.