On Sunday, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated his 32nd birthday, marking another milestone in his illustrious career that many believe is already Hall of Fame-worthy.

Renowned as the best dual-threat player of his generation, Ohtani is often mentioned in the same breath as Babe Ruth. But how does Ohtani’s career at age 32 match up against Ruth’s achievements at the same age?

By the time Babe Ruth reached 32 in 1927, he had already spent 14 seasons in the major leagues. In contrast, Ohtani is currently navigating his ninth season in professional baseball.

Ruth’s run as a two-way athlete spanned a decade, beginning with an impactful six years with the Boston Red Sox. He continued this dual role with the New York Yankees into the 1920-1921 seasons and briefly revived it in 1930 and 1933.

Analyzing the complete careers of Ohtani and Ruth reveals striking similarities across various metrics. But when focusing solely on their performances up to age 32, how do they stack against each other?

When Ruth played in his age-32 season in 1927, he was already a five-time World Series champion (three with Boston, two with New York) and a one-time American League MVP Award winner in 1923. He had a career .349 batting average, 416 home runs and 1,262 RBIs in 1,501 games.

Nearly 100 years apart from Ruth, Ohtani has played in MLB for nine years and is a two-time World Series champion with the Dodgers (2024 and 2025). He’s a four-time MVP (two in the American League with the Angels and two with the Dodgers), has a career .282 batting average, 298 home runs and 719 RBIs in 1,099 games.

Ohtani has pitched for seven years, missing time on the mound due to Tommy John surgery twice. In his MLB pitching career, Ohtani is 47-22, with a 2.83 ERA, 765 strikeouts and one shutout in 114 appearances.

Through Ruth’s first seven years as a pitcher, he had an 89-46 record, a 2.19 ERA, 439 strikeouts and 16 shutouts in 148 appearances.

A harrowing video has surfaced showing the tense moments when eight passengers aboard a small aircraft experienced a crash and subsequent capsizing in New York’s East River on Sunday morning.

Sixteen-year-old Khloe Todd was among the passengers, journeying back with her grandmother, Ada, after spending a weekend in the Hamptons. They had been celebrating a friend’s birthday amid the sweltering Independence Day heatwave.

The plane had departed from East Hampton Town—an affluent area on Long Island—Sunday morning at 10:38 AM and was en route to Manhattan when the unexpected events unfolded.

As midday approached, Khloe recounted hearing a sudden ‘thud.’ The Blade seaplane then began tipping to the left, triggering flashing lights and blaring alarms within the cabin.

Panic set in for Khloe when the pilots urgently called out ‘mayday,’ instructing everyone on board to quickly don their life jackets.

The teen was sitting two rows behind the pilots, next to her 75-year-old grandmother, when the aircraft crashed and its left wing began tilting into the East River.  

In the harrowing footage shared with the Daily Mail, one of the pilots can be heard explaining to terrified passengers that the ‘pontoon broke.’

Ada Todd, who was holding a leather Hermes Kelly and a bottle of water in one hand, can be heard saying ‘oh my god’ – a phrase then echoed by her granddaughter. 

‘We need everyone to put your PFDs [personal flotation devices] on, okay?’ the pilot said, as Khloe filmed from her seat and Ada held on to the chair in front of her. 

Two passengers then respond in worried voices, ‘where are they?’ before the video abruptly ends.  

Khloe told the Daily Mail: ‘I’ve never taken these [planes] before. I was like oh, we’re landing in the water, you know, obviously it’s going to be a little bumpy. 

‘But I didn’t expect it to be that bumpy. So then I see everyone is shouting mayday mayday mayday, open your life vests.’ 

She said she was grateful for a man sitting in the seats behind them on the plane, who helped calm everyone down as the aircraft flipped into the water.  

She added: ‘There was a guy behind us who knew about planes, who was telling us, “We are okay, we aren’t going to drown, everything will be okay.”‘

Khloe told the Daily Mail that her grandma has prior spinal problems and her head was injured in the aftermath of the crash. 

New Yorkers filmed the Kodiak 100 single-engine turbo prop hit the choppy water and partially capsize, and rescue boats scramble to help the passengers from the stricken aircraft.

The passengers and crew were seen being assessed by ambulances near the entrance to FDR Drive after being brought to shore.

Blade Air told the Daily Mail that the hard landing was likely caused by choppy water from passing boats and Saturday night’s thunderstorm.

‘There were a lot of ferries in the vicinity and there may have been wind at the last second,’ a source at the company said.

‘The waves they create can be a problem as you try to land on the water.’

Blade said the impact cracked one of the plane’s struts – which connects the pontoons to the body of the plane – which also caused damage to one of the pontoons.

The flight was being operated by Acadian Seaplanes on Blade’s behalf.

The plane was manufactured in 2022 and registered to Del Air Sky with tail number N555NL, according to records.

Once everyone on board was helped out, the plane was righted and towed to the docks near 23rd Street.

Blade said passengers got their bags about 20 minutes after they were helped ashore, and were put in cars to their final destinations.

The hard landing will be investigated by the NYPD and Federal Aviation Administration.

If you imagined the Yankees’ situation couldn’t deteriorate further, you were mistaken.

During a game where they faced a shutout and approached the field after losing eight of their last nine matches, Jazz Chisholm Jr. exited in the fifth inning due to what appeared to be an injury.

At the bottom half of the fifth inning on Sunday in The Bronx, Chisholm hit a fly ball to right field, appearing to run with difficulty as he reached first base. After the ball was caught, Chisholm slowly made his way back to the dugout.

He had a brief conversation with manager Aaron Boone, who then signaled for Amed Rosario. Rosario took over at third base, causing José Caballero to move to second base.

As of now, the Yankees have not issued any official updates regarding Chisholm’s condition.

It was unclear when Chisholm suffered the apparent injury, but he owned the worst moment of the afternoon for the Yankees. In the second inning, Chisholm won a nine-pitch battle with Minnesota’s Joe Ryan and roped a long single into right, but he then fiddled with his sliding glove at first base, which led to his getting picked off.

A series of shootings in Brooklyn over the Fourth of July weekend left several people injured, including a New York City police detective and four children.

During an early Sunday morning incident in Crown Heights, Detective Robert Karroll from the New York Police Department’s Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot in the back of his protective vest while confronting an armed teenager, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. She provided these details at a news conference following the event.

Detective Karroll was swiftly transported to Kings County Hospital and is anticipated to recover completely. Another officer involved in the incident sustained facial and shoulder injuries.

Scott Munro, President of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, strongly criticized the outbreak of violence.

“This has to stop,” he said at a Sunday morning news conference. “Three weeks ago we had a detective shot – in the same hospital. This has the stop. Our members are out there day and night hours and hours protecting the people of the city of New York doing a job that they took an oath to take and they need to be respected and thank God this detective is going home.”

He sighed relief that “we’re not planning a funeral today.”

Tisch said officers assigned to a mobile field force detail were parked in an unmarked police vehicle near Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place around 4:14 a.m. ET when a person approached the car.

“Given the lack of body-worn camera in this incident, the circumstances of the approach are still unclear,” Tisch said, adding the shooting happened “quickly and unexpectedly.”

That shooting came hours after four children were injured in Coney Island, where at least eight people were shot.

The victims included two men, two women and four children, ages 14, 12, 7 and 6. All were taken to hospitals. Seven were listed in stable condition, while a 21-year-old woman was in critical condition, police said.

In the shooting of the officers, Tisch said officers got out of the vehicle and tried to engage the armed suspect before three officers fired their weapons. The suspect was not struck, she said. The police vehicle had ballistic damage, including bullet holes in the front and rear windshields and on the passenger side.

After a foot chase, the suspect was apprehended several blocks away near Rogers Avenue and Union Street. Tisch said he resisted arrest and refused to be handcuffed before officers deployed a taser and took him into custody. A SAR 9mm firearm was recovered.

“I’m relieved that the officer, Detective Robert Karroll, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not seriously injured as a result of it,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference, relieved at the survival of “a husband and father of three children.”

Tisch said the officers had been reassigned to the area shortly before midnight as part of the department’s Fourth of July violence reduction plan targeting ongoing crew violence.

Investigators were canvassing nearby businesses for surveillance footage because there was no body-camera video of the shooting itself.

The Belgian Football Association has issued a strongly worded statement expressing their discontent with FIFA’s “astonishing” choice to lift the one-game World Cup suspension for USA striker Folarin Balogun.

This decision, confirmed on Sunday, delivered a significant advantage to the US Men’s National Team, as Balogun is now cleared to play in Monday’s crucial round of 16 match against Belgium.

Not long after the announcement, US President Donald Trump expressed his support for FIFA’s decision on Truth Social, stating: “Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and reversing a great injustice!”

While Trump and countless US supporters celebrated the overturning of the suspension, the Belgian Football Association was left outraged by the development.

In a subsequent statement from the Royal Belgian Football Association, they expressed their disbelief, saying: “The RBFA is astonished by FIFA’s decision to allow United States player Folarin Balogun to participate in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, July 6, at 5:00 p.m.”

‘FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.

‘However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team’s next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup.

‘Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5: “If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team’s subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed.”

‘The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026.

‘The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.

‘In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options.’

FIFA are yet to respond to the Belgian FA’s statement. 

Balogun, 25, was sent off during the USA’s victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday following a challenge on defender Tarik Muharemovic.

Though it initially appeared to be a fairly innocuous tackle, replays showed that the striker did appear to scrape his cleats down his rival’s leg. However, the decision still sparked widespread fury online, with many fans calling to overturn the suspension.

On Sunday morning, their wish was granted after FIFA confirmed the suspension. 

In their own statement, FIFA said: ‘In line with article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, the implementation of the match suspension is suspended for a probationary period of one year. 

‘If Folarin Balogun commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probationary period, the suspension shall be revoked and the sanction enforced without prejudice to any additional sanction imposed for the new infringement.’

In response, the USMNT said: ‘We accept the decision of the Disciplinary Committee and are pleased that Folarin Balogun is eligible to compete tomorrow. 

‘Our full attention is focused on the Round of 16 match against Belgium in Seattle, and we look forward to the continued support of our amazing fans.’ 

The Daily Mail understands that the USMNT were informed about the decision on Sunday morning, before Balogun was told at a team meeting shortly afterwards.

Balogun broke his silence on the matter in the days that followed the USA’s 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, insisting that he felt a yellow card would’ve been fair.

‘First and foremost, it was totally unintentional, which I’m sure a lot of people know. But, you know, I think the choice of the referee was, of course, his choice, but I don’t think it was the correct call,’ he told reporters on Friday. 

‘I think a yellow card would have been fair due to it not being intentional. There’s not many places I can place my foot in such a scenario. But it’s happened, and it’s something that I have to accept and move forward from.’