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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani named NL Player of the Week after historic surge

September 23, 2024

LOS ANGELES — To no one’s surprise, Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was named the National League’s Player of the Week for last week.

That’s what happens when you blow through the 50/50 milestone with one of the greatest offensive games in MLB history – his six-hit, three-home run, 10-RBI game in Miami on Thursday.

That was just part of Ohtani’s hot week, though. In seven games, he was 16 for 32 with two doubles, six home runs, 11 runs scored, 17 RBIs, seven stolen bases and a 1.125 slugging percentage.

Atlanta’s Matt Olson drove in 11 runs last week. He was the only player in MLB to have as many RBIs for the week as Ohtani had in one game against the Marlins. That game was also the first time in MLB history that a player had three homers and also multiple stolen bases in the same game.

Ohtani had three games last week in which he hit a home run and stole a base. That gives him 15 of those HR/SB combo games, the most in MLB history (topping Rickey Henderson’s 13 during the 1986 season).

The Player of the Week award is Ohtani’s third this season.

Ohtani currently leads the National League in home runs (53 – two behind Aaron Judge for the major-league lead), RBIs (123), slugging percentage (.640) and OPS (1.023) and the majors in runs scored (128).