Ohtani on‑base streak
- What happened: Shohei Ohtani extended a long on‑base streak with an infield single that kept him reaching base. - The key specific: Ohtani reached base in 53 straight games, breaking the Asian player record. - Context: The streak is drawing MLB attention as Ohtani blends elite hitting and baserunning early this season. (x.com)
Shohei Ohtani pushed his on-base streak to 53 games Tuesday night, beating out a seventh-inning infield single against the San Francisco Giants. (mlb.com) The hit came after Ohtani opened 0-for-3 with two strikeouts at Oracle Park on April 21, then chopped a full-count grounder off reliever Erik Miller that shortstop Willy Adames could not turn into an out. The Dodgers lost 3-1. (olympics.com) The streak broke Shin-Soo Choo’s mark of 52 straight games reaching base, set with the Texas Rangers in 2018, for the longest such run by an Asian-born player in Major League Baseball. Ohtani is 31 and in his third season with Los Angeles. (olympics.com) Ohtani also tied Shawn Green’s 53-game streak from 2000 for the second-longest in Dodgers history since 1900 and the longest since the club moved to Los Angeles in 1958. The franchise record is Duke Snider’s 58 games in 1954, when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. (olympics.com) Across the 53-game run, which began on Aug. 24, 2025, Ohtani has reached base by hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in every game in which he had a plate appearance. Through April 21, he had 57 hits, 39 walks, nine intentional walks and three hit by pitches during the streak. (foxsports.com) Only 48 players had posted a 50-game on-base streak before this season, and Ohtani became the 49th. At 53 games, Fox Sports lists him tied for the 23rd-longest on-base streak in Major League history, alongside Alex Rodriguez. (foxsports.com) The names above him are a short list of baseball landmarks: Orlando Cabrera at 63 in 2006, Joe DiMaggio at 74 in 1941 and Ted Williams with runs of 73 and 84 games. Williams’ 84-game streak remains the modern-era record. (foxsports.com) Ohtani entered Wednesday with a.271 batting average,.396 on-base percentage,.494 slugging percentage, five home runs and one stolen base in 23 games. He is also scheduled to start on the mound for Los Angeles on April 22 against Giants right-hander Tyler Mahle. (espn.com, espn.com) So the streak rolls on into another Ohtani start, with Snider’s 58-game Dodgers record now five games away. Tuesday’s soft infield single counted the same as any line drive in the box score, and it kept him moving up one of baseball’s oldest leaderboards. (olympics.com, foxsports.com)
