Shohei Ohtani’s insane home run and scoreless start record shows he’s the two-way MLB GOAT

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Shohei Ohtani keeps finding new ways to make baseball history feel almost routine.

The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar has built his legend on doing two jobs at a level most players cannot reach in one.

His latest two-day stretch added another ridiculous number to that case, and it once again separated him from nearly everyone in the modern era.

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Shohei Ohtani adds another unreal two-way record

As OptaSTATS noted, Shohei Ohtani has now repeatedly pulled off a home run and scoreless-start combination that almost no one else in modern MLB history has matched.

“Shohei Ohtani has now had 6 instances in his MLB career where he homered one day and then delivered a scoreless start on the mound the next day,” OptaSTATS revealed.

The tweet added, “All other MLB players in the modern era have combined to do that just once (Walter Johnson, August 16-17, 1909).”

That is the kind of stat that explains why the two-way GOAT conversation around Ohtani feels less like hype and more like math.

It is not only that he can hit home runs and pitch. It is that he can do both in back-to-back games while creating records that make the rest of MLB history look empty beside him.

Walter Johnson, being the only other modern-era comparison, shows how rare this lane is.