Ohtani reaching the 50-50 threshold has felt inevitable since he became the fastest player (and only the sixth ever) to join the 40-40 Club on August 23. What finally got the Los Angeles Dodgers star there was this homer against the Miami Marlins on Thursday:

Shohei Ohtani has officially founded the 50-50 club in a sport in which no player had posted more than 42 home runs and 42 stolen bases in the same season in its century-plus history. For some players,

The humble Japanese star, who makes baseball look ridiculously easy and like a heck of a lot of fun, continues to rewrite the history books and our definitions of what is possible.