Shohei Ohtani Makes History With 50/50 Season

A historic day in Major League Baseball went down on September 19, on an 83-degree day when Shohei Ohtani became the first man in the league to reach 50 home runs scored and 50 bases stolen.

In the last couple of games, Ohtani had been dealing with some rough appearances where he was not able to make a lot of contact throughout the game. However, in the final game of the series against a gritty Miami Marlins team, the Japanese superstar could not miss when it came to swinging the bat to the rooftops.

Throughout the season, there has been no limit to what Ohtani could do in his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite the former MVP and Cy Young winner not being able to use his lethal arm to take out the offense from the mound, he slowly, but surely continued to make history happen by hitting bombs and keeping pitchers on the fence with his ability to steal lots of bases.

In six at-bats for Ohtani, he connected with six hits that resulted in three home runs, four runs scored with ten runs batted in. Add it all up and it's a 50/50 and 51/51 season for the superstar who signed a ten-year deal with the Dodgers this past offseason.

Whether you came to support the Marlins or traveled to see Ohtani create history as the first player ever to be crowned the 50/50 king, everyone held out their phones, recording each at-bat Ohtani was in to make sure they did not miss a moment that has never been seen by any fan prior to this day. The smiles in the dugout and the roaring crowd in Miami were enough to make anyone cry.

Ohtani proved himself when he first entered the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Nippon Professional Baseball where he won the Japan Series Championship in the same season where Ohtani achieved his third All-Star season and was the Pacific League MVP.

Soon after, he arrived in the MLB where he was named the Rookie of the Year in 2018, a three-time All-Star, four first-teams, a leader in triples and home runs, and now the first player in MLB history to reach 50/50 in a season.

Adding onto the history he made as a Dodger, Ohtani also passed Shawn Green as the Dodgers' single-season home run record holder, as well as clinching a playoff berth for the first time in his career. If this is just his first season, who knows how the next nine seasons will be when it comes to the legendary Ohtani.

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