Shohei Ohtani made historical past already this season.
However he’s now on monitor to make much more historical past earlier than the 12 months is over.
Ohtani joined the unique 40-40 membership on August twenty third, doing so in dramatic vogue. The Los Angeles Dodgers famous person stepped into the batter’s field within the backside of the ninth inning with the sport in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays tied at 3-3, and the bases loaded. Ohtani promptly blasted a grand slam, giving the Dodgers the walk-off win and placing himself into the document books. The blast, mixed along with his steal of second base earlier within the recreation, made Ohtani the sixth MLB participant to ever have 40 homers and 40 steals in a single season.
As well as, Ohtani grew to become the quickest participant in MLB historical past to perform the feat, as he joined the membership in simply his 126th recreation of the season.
Nevertheless, Ohtani’s cost into the MLB document books isn’t executed. He adopted his dwelling run on Friday night time with one other blast in opposition to the Rays on Saturday, giving him 41 dwelling runs on the season:
Whereas Ohtani was held and not using a dwelling run on Sunday in opposition to the Rays, and didn’t steal a base, the famous person Ohtani entered Monday, August 26 with 41 dwelling runs and 40 steals, placing him on tempo to kind a brand new unique membership.
The 50-50 membership.
No participant in MLB historical past has ever belted 50 dwelling runs and swiped 50 bases in the identical season, and if Ohtani can accomplish this feat it might set a brand new normal for velocity and energy in baseball. However in the meanwhile Ohtani stays on tempo to achieve these milestones. With 41 dwelling runs in 128 video games performed, Ohtani is on tempo to hit 52 HRs this season (51.9 dwelling runs to be actual).
Having stolen 40 bases over these 127 video games, Ohtani is on tempo to steal 51 bases by means of a 162-game season (50.6 to be actual).
Observe alongside as we monitor Ohtani’s pursuit of baseball immortality.
Final recreation: at Arizona Diamondbacks (Sunday, September 1)
Zero dwelling runs (44 whole), zero stolen bases bases (43 whole)
Tempo: 53 dwelling runs, 52 stolen bases
Be aware: Ohtani grew to become the primary participant in MLB historical past to have a 43-43 season
Subsequent recreation: at Arizona Diamondbacks (Monday, September 2)
