Shohei Ohtani singled and scored in the ninth inning against the Giants on Sunday in San Francisco, giving him 135 runs scored on the season, which leads the majors. That run broke the Los Angeles Dodgers record for most runs scored in a season, set by Ohtani last season.
Ohtani was hitless in his first five at-bats on Sunday, but had a pop fly drop in center field to open the ninth inning, extending his on-base streak to 19 consecutive games. He was plated on a single by Tommy Edman, capping the scoring
in the Dodgers’ 10-2 rout of the Giants.
Last season, Ohtani scored 134 runs in his first year with the team en route to winning National League MVP. That surpassed Freddie Freeman’s 131 runs scored in 2023 as the LA Dodgers runs record. Ohtani is the only Dodger in the modern era (since 1900) to score at least 130 runs in a season twice.
Three Brooklyn players had multiple years of 130 runs scored in the 19th century — George Pinkney (1887-88), Hub Collins (1889-90), and Mike Griffin (1895, 1897). It’s Collins who holds the Dodgers franchise record with 148 runs scored in 1890, the club’s first season in the National League.
As it stands, Ohtani’s 135 runs are tied for eighth-most in a season in Dodgers history, along with second baseman Tom Daly in 1894. Ohtani will need to score almost daily to top Collins; with 13 games remaining on the Dodgers schedule, Ohtani is on pace for 147 runs scored.
The only Brooklyn player in the 20th century to score more than Ohtani was Babe Herman, the outfielder who scored 143 runs in 1930. Ohtani also has 753 total bases over 2024-25 combined, a mere 11 shy of Herman’s two-year Dodgers record of 764 total bases in 1929-30.
