Shohei Ohtani, the Japanese phenom and presumptive heir to the Dodgers' legacy, has etched his name into franchise lore, becoming only the third player in team history, after Hodges and Bellinger, to eclipse the 20-homer threshold within the initial 55-game crucible of the season; this rarefied accomplishment, a mere 64th instance in Major League Baseball annals, echoing Pete Alonso's 2023 performance with the Mets, further cements Ohtani's status as a generational talent, underscored by his league-leading home run tally and exemplified by his recent two-run opposite-field dinger against the Guardians – his fourth such feat this season – highlighting a preternatural power where even compromised contact can transmute into prodigious displays of ballistic prowess, the three-time MVP and four-time All-Star having twice this season strung together three consecutive games with a homer and thrice since donning Dodger Blue amassed at least a dozen round-trippers in a single month.