A 12 months in the past, Ronald Acuña Jr. turned the founding member of Main League Baseball’s 40/70 membership, belting 40 house runs and swiping 70 bases in a historic season.
Shohei Ohtani has now turn out to be the founding member of one other historic baseball membership.
Due to his fiftieth house run this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers famous person is now the primary participant in MLB historical past to hit 50 house runs, and steal 50 bases, in a single season.
Ohtani based the 50/50 membership with this blast Thursday in opposition to the Miami Marlins. First, he went deep within the sixth inning for homer No. 49. When he got here up within the order once more within the seventh inning, Ohtani wasn’t going to overlook his probability at historical past.
The Dodgers famous person stole his fiftieth base of the season within the prime of the primary inning in opposition to the Marlins on Thursday, swiping third base. Whereas the throw beat him to the bag, a nifty little bit of footwork noticed Ohtani get his foot on the bottom earlier than the tag was utilized:
Right here is one other angle of Ohtani’s historic steal:
Ohtani’s forty ninth house run of the season, which got here within the sixth inning on Thursday night time, was a 438-foot blast to deep right that reached the higher deck:
That house run additionally made some franchise historical past, because it noticed Ohtani pull even with Shawn Inexperienced for essentially the most house runs in a single season. Inexperienced blasted 49 house runs for the Dodgers again through the 2001 season.
Ohtani was not performed, as he added No. 51 within the prime of the ninth inning off infielder Vidal Bruján, who can now say he too was a part of historical past:
However together with his fiftieth, Ohtani has that Dodgers franchise mark all to his personal.
In addition to a membership the place he’s the one member.
