Shohei Ohtani tracker: Dodgers star reaches 48 HRs, 49 SBs in quest for 50-50 season

Shohei Ohtani tracker: Dodgers star reaches 48 HRs, 49 SBs in quest for 50-50 season

Shohei Ohtani is 2 homers and one stolen base away from historical past, with 10 video games to go.

The Los Angeles Dodgers star continued his marketing campaign to put up MLB’s first 50-50 season with a stolen base towards the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, his forty ninth of the season. It took place as early as potential, as Ohtani started the sport with a single, then took second base on the primary pitch to Mookie Betts.

Marlins catcher Nick Fortes’ throw arrived in time to get Ohtani, but it surely was off-target and bobbled, permitting Ohtani to take third on an error.

Ohtani did not rating from third, although, as he was thrown out at dwelling on a fielder’s alternative off the bat of Teoscar Hernández.

The steal got here a day after Ohtani hit his forty eighth homer of the season towards the Marlins. The lengthy ball moved him only one in need of tying the Dodgers’ single-season file, presently held by Shawn Inexperienced with 49 in 2001.

Sure. With 48 dwelling runs, 49 stolen bases and 10 video games left on the Dodgers’ regular-season schedule, Ohtani is on tempo for 51 homers and 52 steals by the top of the common season.

Ohtani would wish to go 4 consecutive video games and not using a dwelling run to fall under a 50-homer tempo.

The Dodgers’ remaining schedule consists of a homestand towards the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres, adopted by a season-ending journey to the offense-friendly confines of Coors Discipline.

Nevertheless his quest for a 50-50 season works out, Ohtani has achieved sufficient to make his first season with the Dodgers value remembering.

So far as reaching sure numbers in dwelling runs and stolen bases goes, Ohtani has journeyed deep into uncharted territory. In August, he turned the sixth participant to ever attain 40-40 — becoming a member of Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodríguez, Alfonso Soriano and Ronald Acuña Jr. — and he did so in file time. The earliest any of these gamers had reached each thresholds was Soriano on Sept. 16, 2006.

And Ohtani’s fortieth homer was a particular one: a walk-off grand slam.

Rodriguez beforehand held the file for many in each classes, with 42 homers and 46 stolen bases in 1998. Ohtani matched that 42-42 season on his bobblehead evening on Aug. 28 and surpassed it two days in a while Aug. 30.

Ohtani’s present dwelling run depend surpasses his earlier profession excessive of 46 set in 2021, his first MVP 12 months, and he has already shattered his earlier finest in steals (26, additionally in 2021). He presently leads the NL in homers and ranks behind solely Elly De La Cruz in steals.

And, in fact, Ohtani set data for each dimension of contract ($700 million) and deferred contract cash ($680 million) when he signed with the Dodgers earlier than this season.

Ohtani has constructed his profession on being unprecedented. Even in a season by which he is not in a position to pitch, having undergone UCL surgical procedure on the finish of 2023, he’s nonetheless doing issues MLB has by no means seen.