Alex Verdugo Catches Stray With Jaw-Dropping Shohei Ohtani Stat

If you haven't had a chance to see the highlights yet, perhaps you heard: Shohei Ohtani had one of the best baseball games of all time Thursday.

The Los Angeles Dodgers phenom furthered his case for National League MVP by making all sorts of history in a 20-4 win over the Miami Marlins. Ohtani became the first player to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season while going 6-for-6 with three home runs and 10 RBIs. To call it a Ruthian performance would be an insult to Ohtani, who is doing things no one has ever done before in the history of the sport.

Going into Thursday's game, Ohtani led the NL in wins above replacement (Fangraphs) at 7.0. With his historic performance, his WAR increased to 7.7, a massive jump, all things considered. As X user "bsblwithpeyton" pointed out Thursday night, Ohtani's single-game 0.7 WAR accumulation is better than New York Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo has posted for the entire season -- a 143-game sample size.

Certainly, you could do the same thing with a lot of players, but it does speak to how underwhelming Verdugo's first season in the Bronx has been. That he continues to play every day only illuminates that fact. The outfielder's 0.6 fWAR ranks 54th out of 57 big leaguers this season with at least 600 plate appearances. Only Nick Castellanos, Adolis Garcia and Bryan De La Cruz have been worse.

Verdugo hasn't exactly held back the Yankees, though. New York enters play Friday 89-64, inching closer to an American League East title, holding a four-game lead over the Baltimore Orioles in the standings.