Shohei Ohtani, the Japanese baseball phenom, has etched his name into Dodgers' lore, becoming only the third player in franchise history to obliterate 20 home runs within the initial 55 games of a season – a feat previously accomplished by the legendary Gil Hodges and, more recently, Cody Bellinger; this places Ohtani amidst a rarefied stratum of MLB sluggers, marking the 64th instance of such prodigious power display within that timeframe, and the first such occurrence since Pete Alonso of the New York Mets achieved the same in 2023.

Ohtani, a thrice-minted MVP and the league's preeminent home run hitter, punctuated his dominance with a two-RBI hit against the Cleveland Guardians, marking his fourth opposite-field home run this season; a testament to his prodigious power, even mishits can result in round-trippers, and the four-time All-Star has twice strung together three consecutive games with home runs this season, having already breached the twelve-homer threshold in a single month on three separate occasions since joining the Dodgers.