With just over a week remaining in Major League Baseball's regular season, it's safe to declare Shohei Ohtani's first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers a massive success. He's positioned himself to win his third career Most Valuable Player Award;

In a year when he couldn't be a two-way star, Ohtani used his extra time on the bench to become an elite base stealer.

Shohei Ohtani has officially founded the 50-50 club in a sport in which no player had posted more than 42 home runs and 42 stolen bases in the same season in its century-plus history. For some players,

Ohtani’s 51st homer — a three-run shot that traveled a projected 440 feet into the upper deck — came in the ninth inning of an eventual 20-4 drubbing, a win that clinched a postseason berth for the Dodgers for the 12th consecutive year.

After achieving a feat no other MLB player has achieved, Shohei Ohtani shrugged off the historic accomplishment. The Los Angeles Dodgers star admitted that

The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit his 49th and 50th homer and stole his 50th and 51st base all in a single game against the Miami Marlins on Thursday, bursting into history with a 5-for-5 game with two doubles, two homer, two steals and seven RBI.