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htaniā€™s big blast punctuates historic run

Add it to the list of things Shohei Ohtani has done that no one has done before in the recorded history of baseball: Seventeen hits in his last 20 at-bats with runners in scoring position.

Ohtaniā€™s towering, no-doubt, three-run moonshot in the eighth inning of the Dodgers' 8-0 win in Game 3 of the NLCS on Wednesday soared right over the Citi Field right-field foul pole and into the history books.

Before that moment, nobody had ever tallied 17 hits in any span of 20 at-bats with runners in scoring position -- regular season and postseason. It was a Dodger whoā€™d come closest. Frank Howard had a pair of 16-for-19 sprees for the Dodgers in 1962.

Now along comes Ohtani, who founded the 50-homer, 50-stolen base club in his first regular season with the Dodgers and yet has been the subject of chatter in this postseason because of his extreme splits. Going into Game 3, he was 4-for-5 with a homer and a pair of walks with runners in scoring position in this postseason, 6-for-8 with a homer and three walks with runners on base -- and 0-for-19 with the bases empty.

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