Ronald Acuña Jr. made some bombastic MLB history Saturday night

Ronald Acuña Jr. absolutely unloaded on this moonshot, making MLB history in the process.

Seemingly every time Ronald Acuña Jr. takes the field for the Atlanta Braves, he does something utterly spectacular.

While Acuña is going to eclipse 30 stolen bases on the season before the end of the month, he was long overdue for a big fly. Well, as it turned out, he completely obliterated this poor baseball on Saturday night to help Atlanta take the second of three from the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-2. Acuña is known for hitting the ball very far, but to do it this consistently has made MLB history.

With his 464-foot blast on Saturday night, each of his last 10 homers have traveled at least 420 feet. This broke a three-way tie with former Braves teammate Jorge Soler and New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton for most consecutive 420 feet-plus moonshots in the Statcast era dating back to 2015. We cannot wait to see Acuña take this thing to 11 like he plays in Spinal Tap.

Here is the record-setting home run exploding off Acuña’s bat for those who did not see it live.

Ronald Acuña Jr. makes MLB history with his latest home run for Atlanta Braves

Even if that was only Acuña’s 12th home run of the season, who cares? He’s having an MVP-caliber season for the Braves, doing seemingly everything he can to help his contending team win games. While he may not lead the league in any major statistical categories, nobody scores more runs, nobody swipes more bases and nobody gets caught stealing more often than Atlanta’s star.

My favorite thing about the season Acuña is having so far for the Braves is that he hasn’t been a slump at any point as far as I can tell. Yes, there are games where he doesn’t put it all together at the plate, but he is patient in the batter’s box, which allows him to get on base frequently and wreak havoc as soon as he touches first base pretty much. He effects the game on a daily basis.

Overall, we are still only two months and change into the season. There is so much baseball left to be played. However, we are seeing the best season out of Acuña in his big-league career. We may have anticipated for this to happen a full season and then some removed from his ACL tear, but it has still be incredibly impressive to see him take his complete five-tool game to even higher levels.

It is not a matter of if, but only a matter of when, Acuña will achieve an ultra-rare 40/40 season.