Shohei Ohtani homered in the Dodgers’ win over the Diamondbacks on Thursday to clinch the National League West. His 54th home run of the season matched the franchise record set by Ohtani last season. That’s an incredible first two years with a new team.
When Ohtani touched home plate in the fourth inning on Tuesday, he scored his 144th run of the season. That surpassed Babe Herman’s total in 1930 for Brooklyn as the most in the modern era in Dodgers history. To find the only two seasons in franchise
lore with more runs scored than Ohtani in 2025, we have to go back to a time when driving in cars was a brand new thing.
Most runs scored in a season, Dodgers history
- Hub Collins (1890) 148 runs
- Darby O’Brien (1889) 146 runs
- Shohei Ohtani (2025) 144 runs
Ohtani still has three more games this weekend in Seattle to add to his totals, heading to T-Mobile Park, where he last played in 2023. Ohtani with the Angels hit just .184/.280/.377 in 31 games in Seattle, with six home runs and 14 runs scored.
But even if Ohtani doesn’t score another run, he’s already in rarefied air. Since integration (1947-present), there have only been seven major league seasons with at least 144 runs scored.
Scoring 144 runs in a season, 1947-present
- Ted Williams (1949) 150 runs
- Rickey Henderson (1985) 146 runs
- Craig Biggio (1997) 146 runs
- Jeff Bagwell (2000) 152 runs
- Sammy Sosa (2001) 146 runs
- Ronald Acuña Jr. (2023) 149 runs
- Shohei Ohtani (2025) 144 runs and counting
Seattle has won seven straight games and also clinched their division this week, and enter Friday with the same record as the Dodgers (90-69). Scoring runs at all against the Mariners has been a chore of late, with only 14 runs allowed during their seven-game win streak. Ohtani will have his work cut out for him to catch Hub.
