Ohtani got to 100 runs in 107 games, before the Dodgers season is two-thirds over. Ohtani, who has 22 more runs scored than the second-place NL run scorer, got to 100 runs faster than any major leaguer since 2000.
Shohei Ohtani walked in the seventh inning on Monday night and scored on Freddie Freeman’s single. It was the 100th run scored of the season for Ohtani, who got to triple digits in the Dodgers’ 107th game of the season.
It’s the fastest by team games that any major leaguer player scored 100 runs since Jim Edmonds for the Cardinals in 2000. Dating back to 1950, only five others have scored 100 runs within their team’s first 107 games. The only players in that group to score their 100th run before game 107 were Frank Thomas, who needed 103 White Sox games to score 100 runs in 1994, and Rickey Henderson taking 106 games to get to 100 runs for the 1986 Yankees.
Ohtani last season set a Los Angeles Dodgers record with 134 runs scored, and got to his 100th run in the team’s 131st game.
His 107 games this year make him the second-fastest Dodger in the modern era to score 100 runs, behind only Babe Herman, who scored 100 runs through Brooklyn’s first 99 games in 1930.
Ohtani at 100 runs has a whopping 22-run lead over Elly De La Cruz, in second place in the National League with 78 runs scored. The only American League player with more that De La Cruz is Aaron Judge at 90 runs scored.
Tuesday night marks the two-thirds point in the season for the Dodgers, keeping Ohtani on pace to join a very select group. Since integration in 1947, the only major league players to score 150 runs are Ted Williams (150 runs in 1949) and Jeff Bagwell (152 runs in 2000).
Ohtani is the 25th Dodger to score 100 runs in multiple seasons. If he can add 25 more runs this year, he’d be only the fifth Dodger with two seasons of 125 or more runs, along with George Pinkney (1887-88), Hub Collins (1889-90), Mike Griffin (1895, 1897), and Duke Snider (1953, 1955). Pinkney, Collins, and Griffin are the only Dodgers with two seasons of at least 130 runs scored.
In other words, if Ohtani can score 30 more runs this year, he’d be the first Dodger in the modern era to score 130 runs twice.