You won’t find it in any box score or on Baseball-Reference.com. In fact, aside from some obscure chicken scratchings in a coach’s notebook, there is probably no record of it whatsoever. But for the hundred or so Dodger fans who were watching – and enjoying – the minor league intrasquad game between the Dodgers and… well… the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch on Tuesday morning while the major league Dodgers were enjoying their first full day off of the spring, it happened.

…boy, did it happen.

In a game where no score was kept and there was no winner or loser, Dodgers utility infield / outfield prospect Tim Locastro did something that few professional baseball players – major leaguers or otherwise – have ever done. He reached first base on a sharp single up the middle, stole second base, stole third base, and then scored on a wild pitch. It was, in every sense of the word, poetry in motion.

Tim Locastro singles to center field,

…easy steals second base on an attempted pick-off throw to first by left-handed pitching prospect Devin Hemmerich,

…steals third base without a throw,

…and scores on a wild pitch.
(Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

If the name Tim Locastro sounds familiar to you, it well should; because no matter what else happens for the rest of his life, the 25-year-old Auburn, New York native and former 13th-round draft pick (by the Toronto Blue Jays) can tell his kids, grand kinds and (hopefully) great grand kids that he played in the major leagues. In fact, he played in the final three games of the Dodgers regular season in 2017 and was nearly added to the Dodgers National League Division Series roster to be used solely as a pinch-runner. But alas, the Dodgers opted to have troubled right-hander Pedro Baez fill that 25th – and last – roster spot, and we all know how that worked out.

But in the second game of that final regular season series against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field, Tim Locastro did what Tim Locastro does – he pinch-ran for Dodgers veteran second baseman Chase Utley, who had doubled in a run with one out in the top half of the ninth inning.

Locastro promptly stole third base.

Although Locastro did not appear in the postseason for the Dodgers, he remained on the team’s 40-man roster throughout the off-season. As such, he was guaranteed a locker in the team’s clubhouse for spring training 2018. Unfortunately for the extremely polite and soft-spoken speedster, he managed only three hits in his 20 at-bats (.150), which resulted in him being optioned back to the minors this past Saturday.

All of this said, and even though Locastro’s base-running spree on Tuesday means absolutely nothing in the big scheme of things, one has to imagine that somehow somewhere along the way, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, general manager Farhan Zaidi, and president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman will hear some chatter about what Tim Locastro did in a seemingly meaningless minor league spring training intrasquad game – even if there is no official record of it anywhere.

Well done, Tim; well done indeed.