Shohei Ohtani made historical past already this season.
However he’s now on observe to make much more historical past earlier than the yr 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 towards 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 report books. The blast, mixed along with his steal of second base earlier within the sport, 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 sport of the season.
Nonetheless, Ohtani’s cost into the MLB report books will not be achieved. He adopted his dwelling run on Friday evening with one other blast towards the Rays on Saturday, giving him 41 dwelling runs on the season:
Whereas Ohtani was held with out a dwelling run on Sunday towards 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 type 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 will set a brand new commonplace for pace and energy in baseball. However in the mean time 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 precise).
Having stolen 40 bases over these 127 video games, Ohtani is on tempo to steal 51 bases by a 162-game season (50.6 to be precise).
Observe alongside as we observe Ohtani’s pursuit of baseball immortality.
Final sport: at Arizona Diamondbacks (Sunday, September 1)
Zero dwelling runs (44 whole), zero stolen bases bases (43 whole)
Tempo: 53 dwelling runs, 52 stolen bases
Word: Ohtani grew to become the primary participant in MLB historical past to have a 43-43 season
Subsequent sport: at Arizona Diamondbacks (Monday, September 2)