For the first time since June 17, MLB has witnessed a changing of the guards atop the home run leaderboard, as Braves All-Star Matt Olson ended Shohei Ohtani’s reign as king on Saturday afternoon.
With a two-homer outing against the Mets, Olson logged his 41st and 42nd HRs of the season in a 21–3 drubbing on the road, breaking a tie with Ohtani (40) to leap past the Angels superstar as the league leader.
The first of Olson’s moonshots came on a three-run, 422-foot bomb in the top of the sixth inning to put Atlanta up, 6–0. He went on to notch his second with a 357-foot solo shot in the eighth, which also gave him an MLB-leading 105 RBI on the year.
