大谷、メジャー通算５００打点　日本選手３人目

　【ロサンゼルス時事】米大リーグ、ドジャースの大谷翔平選手（２９）は２日、本拠地ロサンゼルスで行われたダイヤモンドバックス戦の七回に２７号２点本塁打を放ち、メジャー通算５０１打点とした。日本選手の５００打点達成は、ヤンキースなどで活躍した松井秀喜（７６０打点）、マリナーズなどでプレーしたイチロー（７８０打点）に続き３人目。
　今季６４打点はナ・リーグ３位で、２７本塁打、打率３割２分はともにリーグ１位。初打点はエンゼルス在籍時の２０１８年４月３日のインディアンス（現ガーディアンズ）戦で、７年目で区切りの数字に到達した。
　５シーズン在籍したプロ野球日本ハムでは通算１６６打点を挙げた。（2024/07/03-15:53）

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani hit a two-run homer at a home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, marking his 500th and 501st runs batted in during his Major League Baseball career.
   He became the third Japanese player to pass 500 RBIs in MLB. Of the other two, Hideki Matsui, who played for the New York Yankees and other teams, scored a total of 760 RBIs in his MLB career, and Ichiro Suzuki earned 780 RBIs in total at teams including the Seattle Mariners. Both Matsui and Suzuki have retired.
   This season, Ohtani has logged 64 RBIs, the third most in the National League, while hitting a league-leading 27 homers and scoring a batting average of .320, also the highest in the league.
   He scored his first RBI in MLB on April 3, 2018, when he was a member of the Los Angeles Angels in the American League, in a game against the Cleveland Indians, now the Cleveland Guardians. Ohtani started to play for the Dodgers this season after working for the Angels, his first team in MLB, for six seasons until 2023.
   During his five seasons at the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a Japanese professional baseball team, Ohtani recorded 166 RBIs.