Shohei Ohtani has actually formally placed himself into the baseball history books and will reword them with each crowning achievement and taken base from here on out.

With Ohtani’s eighth-inning crowning achievement versus the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday, he ended up being the very first Major League Baseball gamer with 43 crowning achievement and 43 taken bases in the exact same season. He struck home run No. 44 to lead off Saturday night’s video game.

His month of August was likewise unique.

According to a social networks post on X (previously Twitter) by OptaSTATS, Ohtani struck 12 crowning achievement and likewise took 15 bases without being captured.

“No other player in MLB history has had both a 12-plus homer month and a month going 15-for-15 or better on steals over the course of his entire career (let alone in the same month).”

Ohtani and the Dodgers topped off the month of August with fireworks. Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman began Saturday’s video game in Arizona with 3 successive solo crowning achievement — offering the Dodgers their very first back-to-back-to-back homers to lead off a video game in franchise history. The Dodgers likewise had a 3-0 lead before an out was taped.

Los Angeles took the lead for great in the top of the ninth after songs from Will Smith and Gavin Lux, and a sacrifice bunt from Kiké Hernández. With runners on 2nd and 3rd, Tommy Edman discarded a single into ideal to generate 2 consent runs.

“It was amazing,” stated Edman, who got in the video game as a pinch-hitter for Kiermaier in the 6th. “First kind of big hit I’ve had with this team.”