Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth deserve to stand alone, together.
The Los Angeles Dodgers' current two-way superstar, and the legendary New York Yankees (and Boston Red Sox) all-time great, are two of the most gifted humans to ever step on a baseball field.
On Tuesday night, Ohtani joined Ruth in some history.
They're now the two players ever to have started 100 games as a pitcher and hit at least 55 career home runs, according to MLB Network's Sarah Langs.
Ohtani made his 100th career pitching start on Tuesday, and it was a good one. He went 6.0 scoreless innings, allowing five hits and striking out eight (although the Dodgers' bullpen blew his good work in a loss).
Ruth made 147 pitching starts in his career. Overall as an MLB pitcher, the southpaw had a 2.28 ERA.
He of course went on to make a bigger name for himself as a hitter, slugging 714 home runs.
Through 100 career pitching starts, Ohtani's ERA is exactly 3.00. He has 670 strikeouts in 528.2 innings.
Ohtani has also hit 278 home runs so far in his MLB career.
Ruth never really pitched and hit full-time in the same season in the way that Ohtani currently is.
But it's cool to have them overlap in baseball history, because it's a reminder of how special Ohtani is, and in a reverse way, how special the Babe was.
This won't be the last statistical list that can only include Ohtani and Ruth. There's no one else like them.
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