What is the Dodgers' single-season franchise home run record?

Shohei Ohtani is not only gunning for a 50-50 season, the first of its kind in major league history, but he's also coming for a Dodgers record that's stood since 2001. He's already blown past Dave Roberts' home run record for a Japanese-born Dodger (seven), but he's also hot on the tails of Shawn Green, LA's single-season home run leader for the last 23 years.

Through the Dodgers' last game against the Braves on Monday night, Ohtani has 47 homers. In 2001, a year when Green placed sixth in in MVP voting, he hit 49 home runs as a Dodger, a career high. That was the year Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs, and Green also placed behind Sammy Sosa (64), Luis Gonzalez (57), and Alex Rodriguez (52) — all basically unheard of numbers in today's game (we would also be remiss not to acknowledge that it was also the peak of the steroid era, but Green was never accused or found guilty of doing so).

2001 also marked Green's fourth and last 20-20 season; he put up his best career slugging, a career-high 125 RBI, and he only sat out of one game the entire year.

Ohtani is currently tied with Cody Bellinger, behind new Hall of Famer Adrián Beltré at 48 and Green standing alone at 49.

Shohei Ohtani is just two home runs away from matching Shawn Green's single-season Dodgers homer record

Green followed up his 2001 campaign with 42 homers, 114 RBI, and a .285/.385/.558 line in 2002, getting an All-Star nod he strangely didn't earn the year before. When the dust settled, he placed fifth in MVP voting. His performance dipped a bit through his last two years with LA, but not by much; he put up a career-high 49 doubles in 2003 (while he was dealing with shoulder tendinitis) and still posted an .800+ OPS in 2004. The Dodgers traded him to the Diamondbacks ahead of the 2005 season, and then he was traded again to Mets in August 2006.

He retired after the 2007 season, but not after putting up the third-highest batting average of his career and 30 more doubles with the Mets.

Ohtani is currently on pace for 51 homers and 52 stolen bases by the time the season is up. It's unlikely (impossible, really) that anyone will ever break Maury Wills' 104-stolen base season in 1962, but if Ohtani can get his power back through the last 12 games of the season, he'll still stand in a league of his own not only in Dodgers history, but baseball history altogether.