Shohei Ohtani still piling up numbers at an incredible rate

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8 hours ago

Coors Field is usually a great place to pad one's statistics, and Shohei Ohtani did just that on Tuesday. But he's also been hitting everywhere of late, leading the National League in several categories. But he hit a few notable numbers in the Dodgers' 11-4 win over the Rockies in Denver.
Ohtani began the day tied for the league lead with 43 home runs. Kyle Schwarber hit his 44th home run for the Phillies in a game that started 112 minutes earlier than Dodgers-Rockies. In the second inning at Coors Field, Ohtani launched his own 44th home run, a solo shot against Austin Gomber.
Ohtani already set the Dodgers' single-season record with 54 home runs last season, and this year with 36 games remaining on the schedule he's on pace for 57. But just getting to 44 home runs this year puts him in rarefied air in franchise history. There have only been five such seasons in Dodgers history, and Ohtani is the only one to do so twice:
Shohei Ohtani (2024) 54
Shawn Green (2001) 49
Adrían Beltré (2004) 48
Cody Bellinger (2019) 47
Shohei Ohtani (2025) 44 and counting
The home run also put Ohtani's major-league-leading total to 301 total bases on the season, making him just the 14th Dodger to have 300 total bases in consecutive season, the first to do so since both Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman turned the trick in 2022-23. Since the start of 2024, Ohtani now has 712 total bases, just 52 shy of Babe Herman's franchise record for a two-year span from 1929-30.
In August, Ohtani is hitting .381/.506/.746 with six home runs and 10 extra-base hits in 17 games.
Ohtani on Tuesday later walked, and also reached on a fielder's choice in the seventh inning. After the latter, he scored on a single by Will Smith. That gave Ohtani 120 runs scored this season, 22 more than anyone else in the majors (Aaron Judge) and 31 runs more than anyone else in the NL (Juan Soto and Elly De La Cruz).
Tuesday was only the Dodgers' 126th game of the season. He's the first major league player to score 120 runs within his team's first 126 games since Ted Williams in 1949.
That puts Ohtani on pace for 154 runs on the season. The Dodgers' franchise record is 148 runs scored, by Hub Collins in 1890, Brooklyn's first year in the National League. In the modern era (since 1900), Herman holds the Dodgers record with 143 runs scored in 1930. Since MLB integration in 1947, only two major leaguers have scored 150 runs in a season — Williiams, with 150 runs in 1949, and Jeff Bagwell, who scored 152 times in 2000 for the Astros.
Ohtani has 36 more games to add to his already prolific totals on offense. Oh yeah, and he's pitching on Wednesday, too.