Dodgers set franchise record for home runs in a season

LOS ANGELES — Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run home run on Sunday against the Giants at Dodger Stadium, breaking the Dodgers franchise record for team home runs hit in one season.

Grandal’s home run in the fourth inning against Chris Stratton was the Dodgers’ 212th home run of 2017, beating the 2000 team for most in a single season.

This has been a prolific season across baseball for power, with Major League Baseball setting a new record for home runs in one season, 5,845 entering Sunday.

The Dodgers rank fifth in the National League and 11th in the majors in home runs this season. They have six players with at least 20 home runs — Cody Bellinger (39), Yasiel Puig (26), Justin Turner (21), Chris Taylor (21), Grandal (21) and Corey Seager (20) — for the first time in club history, breaking the old mark of five players, set in 1979 and 2000.

Twenty different Dodgers have hit home runs this season, two shy of the club record set in 1958, 2000 and 2001.

With a .435 slugging percentage as a team, the Dodgers are poised to break the club record since moving to Los Angeles in 1958. The 2006 team had a .432 slugging percentage, the current high mark. Including the Brooklyn years, the best slugging percentage came in 1953, when the 105-win club posted a .474 number.