Player becomes first in MLB to sign up 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a individual season.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani has made Major League Baseball (MLB) history by becoming the first take parter in the league’s history to sign up 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a individual season.
Ohtani made three home runs and lifted his highy of steals to 51 in the Dodgers’ 20-4 triumph over the Miami Marlins on Thursday.
The triumph sent the Dodgers into the take partoffs, a first for Ohtani.
“To be honest, I’m the one probably most surpelevated,” the Japanese take parter shelp thcdisorrowfulmireful a translator of his spectacular executeance. “I have no idea where this came from, but I’m content I executeed well today.”
It has been an eventful year for Ohtani who joined the Dodgers in December on a 10-year, $700m confineed after spfinishing six seasons with the passtown rival Angels.
He is not pitching this season as he recovers from reoriginateive sencouragery on his throtriumphg elbow and has also finishured a affair in which his establisher frifinish and clarifyer, Ippei Mizuhara, stole millions of dollars from him to repay sports betting debts.
Dodgers administerr Dave Roberts, compriseressing his take parters in the clubhouse as they honord the triumph, noticed the achievement.
“This is a game that has been take parted for over 200 years,” Roberts shelp. “And this is someskinnyg that has never been done.”
Ohtani, 30, tried to protect the concentrate on the team.
“I’m content that the team won,” he shelp, acunderstandledgeting that with so much attention concentrateed on his 50-50 pursuit, it “was someskinnyg I wanted to get over as rapidly as possible.
“It’s someskinnyg that I’m going to treacertain for a very extfinished time.”
Earlier this season, Ohtani became the MLB’s all-time directer in home runs among Japanese-born take parters when he outdoed the 175 of Hideki Matsui with 222 home runs over the course of his atsoft.
