{"id":599426,"date":"2026-04-11T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:39:12","slug":"shohei-ohtani-passes-ichiro-suzuki-for-another-japanese-mlb-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599426\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani passes Ichiro Suzuki for another Japanese MLB record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani has reached base in his last 44 regular season games, setting an MLB record for a player born in Japan, surpassing Ichiro Suzuki, a player he admired while growing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ohtani singled in the fourth inning against Kumar Rocker the Texas Rangers on Friday night at Dodger Stadium, his 13th game in 13 tries this season reaching base by hit, walk, or hit by pitch at least once. The streak dates back to August 24, 2025, covering his final 31 games of last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The caveat here is that streaks like these are regular season only. Last postseason, Ohtani was on base in 15 of 17 games, only failing to reach in Game 3 of the National League Division Series and Game 5 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Longest Dodgers on-base streaks since 1900:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dodgers have played baseball since 1884, and joined the National League in 1890. But there aren\u2019t full gamelogs for 19th century games. Baseball Reference has data going back to 1898, and there\u2019s at least one known streak longer than these modern Dodgers streaks. Fielder Jones, a center fielder for Brooklyn, reached base in 70 straight games from June 13-September 7, 1899.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s check back in mid-May to see if Ohtani can keep up with the Joneses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani has reached base in his last 44 regular season games, setting an MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,226462,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-599426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dodgers-history-records","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}