LOS ANGELES — The crack of Shohei Ohtani’s bat on Sunday afternoon wasn’t just another home run — it was a thunderclap heard across Major League Baseball. With a towering blast that disappeared into the right-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani not only electrified the 50,000 in attendance but etched his name into franchise history, becoming the fastest player ever to reach 40 home runs in a single season for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It took the Japanese superstar just a fraction of the games his predecessors needed. In a lineup stacked with All-Stars, it’s Ohtani who has seized the spotlight, rewriting what’s possible in a Dodgers uniform — and doing it with a calm swagger that’s left pitchers across the league shaking their heads. The ball left his bat like a missile, but what this moment really launched… was a new chapter in the legend of Shohei Ohtani.

And here’s the kicker — the season’s far from over. The question now isn’t whether he can break more records, but how many walls he’ll tear down before the final pitch of 2025 is thrown.