Shohei Ohtani, the sui generis Japanese baseball phenom, has etched his name into Dodgers lore, joining the rarefied company of Gil Hodges and Cody Bellinger as only the third player in franchise history to obliterate 20 home runs within the nascent 55-game span of the season—a feat accomplished a mere 64 times in Major League Baseball annals, most recently by Pete Alonso of the New York Mets in the preceding annum. Ohtani, a three-time MVP and current Major League home run king, punctuated a game against the Cleveland Guardians with a cathartic, two-run dinger, his fourth opposite-field blast this season, underscoring the preternatural power with which he can turn even compromised contact into prodigious displays of offensive pyrotechnics, having already twice this season strung together three consecutive games with at least one round-tripper; moreover, the four-time All-Star has demonstrated his sustained prodigious power at the plate, having surpassed a dozen home runs in a single month on three separate occasions since donning the Dodgers' iconic livery.