MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani became the first major league player to exceed 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season during the most spectacular game of a history-making career for the Los Angeles Dodgers star, going deep three times and swiping two bags on Thursday against the Miami Marlins.

Shohei Ohtani made history on Thursday night. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar hit an opposite-field home run that traveled 391 feet in the seventh

Shohei Ohtani hit his 49th home run of the season and snatched two more stolen bases in Miami on Thursday, leaving the Los Angeles Dodgers' slugger one home run away from being the first player in MLB history with 50 homers and 50 stolen bases in a single season.

The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit his 49th, 50th and 51st homers and stole his 50th and 51st bases all in a single game against the Miami Marlins on Thursday, bursting into history with a 6-for-6 game with three homers, two doubles, two steals, four runs scored and 10 RBI in a 20-4 Dodgers win that clinched Ohtani's first trip to the MLB playoffs.

Among the roughly 23,000 men who played played Major League Baseball over the past century-and-a-half, none had a season with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases — until now.

Shohei Ohtani has now become the founding member of another historic baseball club. Thanks to his 50th home run this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar is now the first pla

On August 23, Ohtani became the sixth member of MLB's 40-40 club. He joined Jose Canseco (1988), Barry Bonds (1996), Alex Rodriguez (1998), Alfonso Soriano (2006), and Ronald Acuna Jr. (2023) in that exclusive group. Then he took things further. Now he stands alone in baseball history.

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani Thursday became the first ever Major League Baseball player to reach 50 homers and 50 stolen bases in a season.