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Shohei Ohtani did it again and what a way to do so. He hit a moonshot that helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Boston Red Sox 9 to 6 on Sunday Night Baseball and reached a very important milestone, another one that makes him part of a select group as he normally does throughout his career.
The star hitter hit his 30th home run of the season and placed the score 6 to 2 at the moment in favor of his team and the way he hit the ball left everyone watching amazed. It was a 473 feet home run that left his teammate Clayton Kershaw with his jaw dropping as he was being interviewed live during the ESPN broadcast.
This third and final game of the series between both teams began with a 2 to 0 lead for the visitors from Boston at the Dodger Stadium. However, with a great demonstration of offensive power, the team from Los Angeles took control of the confrontation.
Shohei Ohtani reaches another milestone
A total of five home runs allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers to command the victory after a big rally towards the end of the bottom of the fifth inning. The last, and longest, came off the bat of Shohei Ohtani.
The star from Japan disappeared the ball between right and center field, to reach 30 home runs as he became the first hitter in the National League to achieve it. The Asian faced Boston starter Kutter Crawford in his third appearance at bat. The right-hander used a cutter pitch at 85.9 mph to try to dominate, but the Japanese hit it and sent it out of the park.
In Dodger Stadium only four hits have been connected with distances greater than 460 feet and Shohei Ohtani has two of them in the Statcast era. It also became the second longest home run in that stadium, the first one went off the bat of Giancarlo Stanton with a 475 feet bomb in 2015. Shohei Ohtani reached his fourth consecutive season with 30 or more home runs in his career as an MLB hitter. His best campaign was in 2021, when he got 46 long balls.