by Cary Osborne
Shohei Ohtani scored his 100th run of the season on Monday.
He is on pace for 151 runs scored this season. Only 19 players in the Live Ball Era (since 1920) have reached 150 runs scored. Only one has reached the number since 1950 — Houston Astro and Hall of Famer Jeff Bagwell in 2000.
Ohtani is on pace to obliterate the Los Angeles Dodger record — set last year by one Shohei Ohtani with 134. Ohtani reached 100 runs last season on Aug. 25 in his 128th game of the season and the Dodgers’ 131st game.
He reached his 100th run this season in his 105th game and the Dodgers’ 107th.
Ohtani is also pacing toward the franchise single-season runs record, which dates all the way back to the Dodgers’ first official season. Hub Collins, an infielder/outfielder, scored 148 times in 1890.
Runs, like RBI, is a stat that is generally more dependent on the production of others.
But here is a good fraction of ways in which Ohtani has scored:
· Ohtani has scored 38 times from a home run.
· He has scored nine times after putting himself in scoring position with a stolen base.
· He has scored six times after he tripled.
· He has doubled 13 times and scored after four of those two-baggers.
So 19 of those 100 runs have been by Ohtani’s own efforts to get into scoring position.
That’s 57 runs scored by either a home run or giving his team a better chance to drive him home.
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