History alert! 9 stat chases to watch down the stretch

With about a month left in the 2025 MLB season, there's a lot more than postseason races still undecided.

Along with some exciting stat races for batting average, ERA, strikeouts and more, there are also a number of other dramatic pursuits to watch involving some of the biggest names in the game.

Here's a look at nine impressive, even historic, feats that are very much in reach as the season draws to a close.

All stats are through Thursday.

Shohei Ohtani chasing 400 total bases and 150 runs scored

With his historic 50-50 season in 2024, Ohtani became the first player to reach 400 total bases since 2001. Now, he has a chance to be the first player to do it in consecutive seasons since Todd Helton in 2000 and 2001. Entering Friday, he was on pace for 373 total bases. But one hot streak could get him back on track for 400. Just as impressive, he also has a chance to be the first player since Jeff Bagwell in 2000 to score 150 runs (and just the second since 1950!). He's on pace for 149 entering Friday, but that theoretical heater could make 150-plus a safe bet. Nobody's had 400 or more total bases and scored 150 or more runs in the same season since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.

Cal Raleigh chasing 60 homers

Raleigh seems to make home run history twice a week these days. He's already the first primary catcher to hit 50 dingers, and he's closing in on Mickey Mantle's record (54) for most homers by a switch-hitter. But he's also on target to reach that hallowed mark of 60 long balls. Raleigh was on pace for 60 entering play Friday, which would tie him with Babe Ruth for the third-most homers in a season in AL history. It would also make him just the seventh player to reach 60 homers in a season, and would be just the 10th season of 60-plus homers overall.

Corbin Carroll chasing 20 triples

Carroll has always been an extra-base-hits machine, given his power and speed tools. He's had a certain affinity for triples, having led MLB in three-baggers last season and the NL in 2023. He's at it again this season, and he could be the first player to reach 20 triples in a season since Curtis Granderson (23) and Jimmy Rollins (20) did it in 2007. He was on pace for 19 entering play Friday, but he already has FOUR two-triple games this season, so another couple of those would certainly boost his chances.

Matt Olson chasing 162 games played for fourth straight year

Olson is baseball's current Iron Man, having played in 754 straight games entering Friday. Should he continue the streak through 2025, that would give him four straight seasons of 162 games played -- and make him the first player to have four or more consecutive 162-game seasons since Juan Pierre did it in five straight seasons from 2003-2007 (Miguel Tejada had a concurrent six-season stretch from 2001-2006). It would also make Olson just the seventh player ever to do it since the advent of a 162-game schedule in 1961.

Aaron Judge chasing a 200 OPS+ for a third time

Judge is well on his way to becoming known as one of the greatest hitters of all time, having already recorded four seasons with an OPS of 1.000 or higher, and in good position for a fifth this season. He's also making a big impression with OPS+, which takes a player's OPS and normalizes it across the league, accounting for external factors such as ballparks, then adjusts the league-average mark to 100. Judge's OPS+ entering Friday was 202. That means his offensive output has been 102 percent above league average. It also means Judge is vying for a third season with an OPS+ of 200 or higher, which would make him just the second qualified hitter to do that in the Expansion Era (since 1961), and the first since Barry Bonds did it six times between 1992 and 2004.

Paul Skenes chasing a sub-2.00 ERA

Skenes has been downright historic through his first 50 MLB starts, posting the second-lowest ERA (2.02) during that span in the Live Ball Era (since 1921). His 2.07 ERA entering Friday leads all of baseball, and he has a chance to be the first qualified pitcher to finish the season with a sub-2.00 ERA since Justin Verlander in 2022. And though Skenes didn't qualify for the ERA title in his rookie season, when he posted a 1.96 ERA in 23 starts, a second-straight sub-2.00 season would make him the first pitcher to do that while making at least 23 starts since Clayton Kershaw in 2013 and 2014.

Garrett Crochet and Tarik Skubal chasing the Pitching Triple Crown

Skubal won the Pitching Triple Crown -- leading in wins, ERA and strikeouts -- last season as he was the unanimous AL Cy Young Award winner. The Tigers lefty has a chance to do it again, but this time he has company. Red Sox lefty Crochet is also vying for the lead in the three relevant categories, which could make for a dramatic stretch run for both pitchers, and an entertaining one for us. Entering Friday, Skubal (11-4; 212 K's) led only in ERA (2.28 to Crochet's 2.40), while Crochet led in wins (14) and strikeouts (214). Crochet would seem to have the Triple Crown edge as of now, but absolutely do not count Skubal out.

Aside from the individual feats at stake, there are also some notable group efforts that would make history.

Three or more players chasing 50-plus homers

We've not had three or more players reach 50 homers in a season since 2001, and there's never been a season with five players to do it. But one or both could happen in 2025. Entering Friday, there are five players who've already hit more than 40 homers, including Raleigh and his 50. There's also Kyle Schwarber (49), Ohtani (45), Eugenio Suárez (42) and Judge (41). Schwarber is virtually assured to reach 50, while Ohtani seems a reasonable bet, too. That would give us three players with 50-plus. But should Suárez and Judge go on hot streaks, then we could see some real history.

Five or more players chasing a 30-30 season

There have never been five players to make the 30-30 club in the same year, but that could change this season. At the start of play Friday, there were 11 players with more than 20 homers and more than 20 stolen bases. Only one player on that list has already reached 30 homers (Juan Soto) while just two have already reached 30 steals (José Ramírez and Pete Crow-Armstrong). Crow-Armstrong is the closest to joining the 30-30 club, with 28 homers and 31 steals, followed by Ramírez, with 26 homers and 36 steals. But with about a month to go, the others on the list -- Carroll, Randy Arozarena, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Francisco Lindor, Zach Neto, Julio Rodríguez, Trevor Story and Kyle Tucker -- are capable of reaching the marks.