Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50-50 season questioned

Questions are being raised whether Shohei Ohtani is the only MLB player to achieve 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in one season. The 30-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star achieved the milestone in one game against the Miami Marlins on Sept. 19, when he stole his 50th base in the first inning and hit his 50th home run in the seventh. Reviewing the data: Dodgers Nation, along with Adam Darowski, the executive director of design and product management for Sports Reference, analyzed available statistics of all players in the 1920-48 Negro League (NL) using the Baseball Reference database.