shohei ohtani alert

genuinely insane, like this guy's whole deal was that he could hit AND pitch at a high level, now he might be the first ever to do a 50/50 season, like what the fuck

He's currently tied for 3rd on the Dodgers single season home-run leaders. 50 puts him as the all-time dodgers record holder. Beat his own single season record today too. He has touched a new ceiling of what can be expected of his bat, going to be interesting to see to what level it regresses as he picks up the ball next season

Genuinely surprised a dodger has never reached 50

Even the padres have a guy

49 for...Shawn Green!

Wasn’t DS famously HR suppressing?

there have been 7 seasons where a Dodgers player hit 40 since they moved to L.A. for the 1958 season, which seems crazy.

the only one to do it twice is Green.

Green - 49
Beltre - 48
Ohtani - 47 and counting
Bellinger - 47
Sheffield - 43
Green - 42
Piazza - 40

even 35+ is tough, afaict the player who has done that the most is Muncy (4x)

idk if that's particularly low tbh, it just seems like not a lot considering the players they've had over 65+ seasons.

to solve this mystery i googled 'dodgsters stadium park factor'. after looking at a few charts i have come to the conclusion that i am no closer to solving this than i was before i started.

Chavez Ravine was always an extreme pitcher's park through the '60s and '70s (most famous benificiary: Koufax), not sure after that.

I don’t know how much the park has been tinkered with over the years, but savant has it as the 10th most pitcher friendly park over the last few years. ESPN used to have a park factor chart that covered a pretty decent period of time, but it looks like they took it down

Not 100% sure why, but dodger stadium went from the most pitcher friendly park to a slightly-more-pitcher-friendly-than-average from 2005 to 2006

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-park-factors?type=year&year=2005&batSide=&stat=index_wOBA&condition=All&rolling=

There's no batters from recent decades I thought had hit 50, though if you told me Belli hit 50+ in his MVP season I'm not sure if I'd have questioned it. Might have also believed it if I was told Duke Snider hit 50+.

I'm surprised Corey Seager topped out at 26 HRs as a Dodger. Would have thought for sure he hit the 30 mark at one point

here come those santa ana winds again...

babylon hitters... rake it!

yeah no, the Santa Anas blow in at Dodger Stadium:

https://i.imgur.com/lvRPcnw.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/bEDLXrr.jpeg

http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/DodgerStadium.html

roll over dimension changes

might be most impressed that he's only been caught stealing four times

Tbf he has been picked off a few times as well.

Also here's something I do not understand. Ohtani has 47hrs but an xhr of only 42.3 for this season. In all but three parks (Dodger stadium, Citizen Bank Park, Great American Ballpark), he has a lower xhr.

Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/shohei-ohtani-660271?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

Dodgers stadium is a hr stadium this year. It has the highest HR park factor of all stadiums played in by and mlb team in 2024, bar "Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu". I wonder how much of the park factor is effected by the high slug of the home team? The methodology for defining park factor is based on the results of the teams playing in said stadiums (which kinda makes the park factors sorta useless in isolating what characteristics are specific to the park?)

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-park-factors?type=year&year=2024&batSide=&stat=index_wOBA&condition=All&rolling=no

Dodgers stadium always seemed harder to hit homers at night. Seemed like you got a ball up it would die in the warning track.

I don’t know a lot about xHR but I doubt it matters at all, prob need several seasons worth of data to make that meaningful

Definitely one of the most pitcher friendly hockey rinks I’ve seen

This doesn't answer the question, but Sandy Koufax in Dodger Stadium:

57-15, 1.37, 715.1 IP, 446 H, 754 K, 5.31 K/BB, 0.822 WHIP

His career road stats:

86-46, 3.04, 1166.1 IP, 918 H, 1178 K, 2.66 K/BB, 1.167 WHIP

I should isolate his road stats to only 1962-66, the life of Dodger Stadium and the years when he dominated, but that'd be some work...the general point holds.

Unreal stats geez

48-48

ONE MORE HOMER

I just tuned in and he did it, good for him!

50/51 and there is over a week left.

5-5 with 2 homers, 2 doubles, and 2 steals

what a player

oh my god

MLB Network is going overboard, saying stuff like the greatest baseball player of all time.

Slow down a moment...

you are fucking kidding me

No fucking way

WOW!

what

the fuck

it will be interesting seeing the research roll in tomorrow to see how this compares with the great single offensive games of all time

i remember Nomar getting 10 RBI once, like shohei has today. it was 2 slams i think, making up the preponderance. but this blows that away

the record for total bases in a game is Shawn Green w/19 (6-6, 4 HR, 2 doubles), Shohei is at 17.

on the day he annihilated Green's single season Dodger HR record too.

Three more batters till ohtani is back up. Why not get a cycle today too while you're at it?

Damnit norby

ho lee shit

I kinda don't know what to say

Except that it's insanely on brand for Ohtani to skip a 50/50 day and go straight to 51/51

Final batting line today: 6-for-6 with 3 HRs, 2 SB, 2 doubles, 10 RBI.

Forgetting 51/51 for a moment (lol), I actually can't remember a game I've seen with a better batting line. Clemenza, you got a recent comparison for me?

Is he going to pitch in the postseason? I would not put it past him at this point.

Since RBI became official in 1920, only one MLB player has had, over the course of his entire career (same game or not),

a game with 10+ RBI
a game with 6+ hits
a game with 5+ XBH
a game with 3+ HR
a game with 2+ SB

That one player is Shohei Ohtani. He did all of it today. pic.twitter.com/njXOmwHKnm

— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) September 20, 2024

uhh

every single hit today was an absolute rope

Just saw the whole thing in sequence. To (possibly) make it all even more amazing, he was 3-3 with 2 SB..then hit the 3 HR. And if he hadn't been thrown out at third (on the third hit, I think), he would have had a cycle, too.

Funny comment on the tweet above: "If he had had this game for the Angels, they would have still lost somehow."

A year ago to the day he had Tommy John's* surgery.