{"id":596844,"date":"2026-04-11T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:47:37","slug":"shohei-ohtani-sets-record-for-longest-on-base-streak-by-japanese-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596844\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani sets record for longest on-base streak by Japanese player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a night where Ichiro Suzuki was being immortalized in bronze, some 17 hours north, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/shohei-ohtani\/80de60c9-74e3-4a50-b128-b3dc7456a254\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"80de60c9-74e3-4a50-b128-b3dc7456a254\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> was breaking a record set by his countryman in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>With a single in the fifth inning of Friday&#8217;s contest against the Texas Rangers, Ohtani broke the record for longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born player in MLB, reaching safely in 44 consecutive contests.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani has reached base in every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-dodgers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> regular-season game since Aug. 23, 2025. Entering Friday, the four-time MVP carried a 1.007 OPS with 14 homers, 33 walks and 46 hits over the 43-game streak.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the longest active stretch in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking the field Friday, Ohtani was sporting a .267\/.407\/.489 slash line with three home runs and 8 RBIs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a night where Ichiro Suzuki was being immortalized in bronze, some 17 hours north, Shohei Ohtani was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-596844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}