LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani hit the 300th home run of his Major League Baseball career while leading off Tuesday's game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium.
Ohtani launched a 409-foot (125-meter) blast to center field off a 2-0 pitch from Rockies starter Michael Lorenzen to register home runs in back-to-back games.
With his 20th long bomb of the season, Ohtani became the 170th player in MLB history, and the first from Japan, to join the 300-homer club, accomplishing the feat in his ninth season.
The 32-year-old had reached 299 career home runs in the Dodgers' 8-7 walk-off win over the Rockies on Monday.
Ohtani led the American League with 44 homers for the Los Angeles Angels in 2023 and topped the National League with 54 the following year.
The four-time MVP also marked a career-high 55 homers last year and has now reached the 20-homer threshold for six consecutive seasons.
In Japan, Ohtani hit a total of 48 home runs for the Nippon Ham Fighters between 2013 and 2017.
On the all-time home run list for Japanese major leaguers, Hideki Matsui ranks second with 175, followed by Ichiro Suzuki with 117.
