had the first 6-homer, 7-steal week in MLB history, he drove in 17 runs and reached 50-50 with an unprecedented game that also clinched a playoff berth for the Dodgers. This is his third player of the week award of 2024w

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani had a week for the ages, founding the 50-50 club and then blowing right past that milestone for one of the great weeks in Dodgers or MLB history. On Monday, Ohtani was named the National League player of the week.

Ohtani in seven games last week had 16 hits in 32 at-bats, including six home runs, two doubles, and seven stolen bases, hitting a robust .500/.543/1.125 with 11 runs scored and 17 runs batted in.

Last week he led the majors in hits, home runs, stolen bases, runs scored, RBI, slugging percentage, OPS (1.668), wRC+ (352), and total bases (36). Ohtani even accumulated 1.3 FanGraphs WAR for last week alone.

Ohtani punctuated his 50-50 season with the first-ever three-homer, two-steal game in major league history on Thursday in Miami, setting a Dodgers single-game record with 10 RBI in the process.

He either hit a home run or stole a base in each of his last six games, and in three of those games he did both. His 15 games with both a home run and stolen base this season are two more than Rickey Henderson’s previous major league record set in 1986.

Ohtani is the first major league player with at least six home runs and seven RBI in a seven-game span, and he did all that in the last six games.

On Sunday, Ohtani had already stolen two bases when his home run to lead off the ninth inning tied the game

“He’s been carrying us all year,” said Mookie Betts, who followed Ohtani’s home run with a walk-off shot to win Sunday’s game. “It’s why he got $700 million, to carry us. And it’s up to us to support him.”

Ohtani on the season has 53 home runs and 55 stolen bases, with six games remaining on the schedule to add to his prolific totals. Prior to this year, the highest number that someone reached in both homers and steals was 42, when Alex Rodríguez hit 42 home runs and stole 46 bases in 1998.

“He doesn’t seem human right now,” manager Dave Roberts said Sunday.

Ohtani also won player of the week honors this year for the week of April 29-May 5 and the week of June 17-23. He’s the third Dodgers player to win three player of the week awards in one season, joining Mike Piazza (1993) and Freddie Freeman (2022).