Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani makes baseball history

Player becomes archetypal successful MLB to grounds 50 location runs and 50 stolen bases successful a azygous season.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani has made Major League Baseball (MLB) past by becoming the archetypal subordinate successful the league’s past to grounds 50 location runs and 50 stolen bases successful a azygous season.

Ohtani made 3 location runs and lifted his tally of steals to 51 successful the Dodgers’ 20-4 triumph implicit the Miami Marlins connected Thursday.

The triumph sent the Dodgers into the playoffs, a archetypal for Ohtani.

“To beryllium honest, I’m the 1 astir apt astir surprised,” the Japanese subordinate said done a translator of his spectacular performance. “I person nary thought wherever this came from, but I’m gladsome I performed good today.”

It has been an eventful twelvemonth for Ohtani who joined the Dodgers successful December connected a 10-year, $700m declaration aft spending six seasons with the crosstown rival Angels.

He is not pitching this play arsenic helium recovers from reconstructive country connected his throwing elbow and has besides endured a ungraded successful which his erstwhile person and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, stole millions of dollars from him to repay sports gambling debts.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, addressing his players successful the clubhouse arsenic they celebrated the victory, noted the achievement.

“This is simply a crippled that has been played for implicit 200 years,” Roberts said. “And this is thing that has ne'er been done.”

Ohtani, 30, tried to support the absorption connected the team.

“I’m gladsome that the squad won,” helium said, admitting that with truthful overmuch attraction focused connected his 50-50 pursuit, it “was thing I wanted to get implicit arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

“It’s thing that I’m going to cherish for a precise agelong time.”

Earlier this season, Ohtani became the MLB’s all-time person successful location runs among Japanese-born players erstwhile helium surpassed the 175 of Hideki Matsui with 222 location runs implicit the people of his career.